The Yang-Baxter equations and the Zamolodchikov model (Q1082699)

A summary is given of the significance of the star-triangle, or Yang- Baxter, equations in the solution of two-dimensional statistical mechanical models. The extension to the three-dimensional tetrahedron relations is quoted and it is shown how this can be used to obtain the partition function of the Zamolodchikov model for an \(n\times \infty \times \infty\) lattice. The \(n=\infty\) result differs from that recently obtained by Bazhanov and Stroganov.