A combinatorial interpretation of the free-fermion condition of the six-vertex model

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/32/19/303MaRDI QIDQ4949076zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. Brak, Aleksander L. Owczarek

Publication date 27 April 2000

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9911406

zbMATH Keywords

Bethe ansatz equationsexplicit solutionsgeneralized Gessel-Viennot involutionintersecting walkpartition function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Exactly solvable models; Bethe ansatz (82B23)

Abstract: The free fermion condition of the six-vertex model provides a 5 parameter sub-manifold on which the Bethe Ansatz equations for the wavenumbers that enter into the eigenfunctions of the transfer matrices of the model decouple, hence allowing explicit solutions. Such conditions arose originally in early field-theoretic S-matrix approaches. Here we provide a combinatorial explanation for the condition in terms of a generalised Gessel-Viennot involution. By doing so we extend the use of the Gessel-Viennot theorem, originally devised for non-intersecting walks only, to a special weighted type of emph{intersecting} walk, and hence express the partition function of $N$ such walks starting and finishing at fixed endpoints in terms of the single walk partition functions.

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