The free-fermion eight-vertex model: couplings, bipartite dimers and \(Z\)-invariance (Q2223720)

In this present paper, the author studies the eight-vertex model (or 8V-model for short) introduced by \textit{B. Sutherland} [``Two-dimensional hydrogen bonded crystals without the ice rule'', Math. Phys. 11, No. 11, 3183--3186 (1970; \url{doi:10.1063/1.1665111})]. Denote by \(X_{\alpha, \beta}\) the whole set of weights corresponding to parameters \(\alpha\), \(\beta\) and by \(Z_{8V} (Q,X_{\alpha, \beta})\) the partition function. Let \(Q\) be a quadrangulation of the sphere. For any parameters \(\alpha, \beta,\alpha ',\beta ':\mathcal{F}\rightarrow (0,\frac{\pi}{2})\), the author proves the equation \[\frac{Z_{8V}(Q,X_{\alpha ,\beta })}{\sqrt{c_{\alpha ,\beta }}}\frac{Z_{8V}(Q,X_{\alpha ',\beta '})}{\sqrt{c_{\alpha ',\beta '}}}=\frac{Z_{8V}(Q,X_{\alpha ,\beta '})}{\sqrt{c_{\alpha ,\beta'}}}\frac{Z_{8V}(Q,X_{\alpha ',\beta })}{\sqrt{c_{\alpha ',\beta }}},\] where \(\mathcal{F}\) is set of faces. The author presents a local formula for the inverse of Kasteleyn matrix \(K_{\alpha,\beta}\). The author then defines a probability measure \(\mathcal{P}_{8V}\) on the space of 8V-configurations equipped with the \(\sigma\)-field generated by cylinders. Under some conditions, the author proves that the probability \(\mathcal{P}_{8V}\) is a translation invariant ergodic Gibbs measure. The author computes correlators of free-fermion 8V models and relate them to Ising ones. The dimer model associated to the 8V-model is defined. The author proves that the edge correlations can be expressed as minors of the inverse Kasteleyn matrices. Finally the author constructs an ergodic Gibbs measure in the \(Z\)-invariant case.