Bethe ansatz, inverse scattering transform and tropical Riemann theta function in a periodic soliton cellular automaton for An^(1)

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2010.013zbMATH Open1187.82036arXiv0909.3759OpenAlexW2142251092MaRDI QIDQ970324FDOQ970324

Atsuo Kuniba, Taichiro Takagi

Publication date: 17 May 2010

Published in: SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study an integrable vertex model with a periodic boundary condition associated with U_q(A_n^{(1)}) at the crystallizing point q=0. It is an (n+1)-state cellular automaton describing the factorized scattering of solitons. The dynamics originates in the commuting family of fusion transfer matrices and generalizes the ultradiscrete Toda/KP flow corresponding to the periodic box-ball system. Combining Bethe ansatz and crystal theory in quantum group, we develop an inverse scattering/spectral formalism and solve the initial value problem based on several conjectures. The action-angle variables are constructed representing the amplitudes and phases of solitons. By the direct and inverse scattering maps, separation of variables into solitons is achieved and nonlinear dynamics is transformed into a straight motion on a tropical analogue of the Jacobi variety. We decompose the level set into connected components under the commuting family of time evolutions and identify each of them with the set of integer points on a torus. The weight multiplicity formula derived from the q=0 Bethe equation acquires an elegant interpretation as the volume of the phase space expressed by the size and multiplicity of these tori. The dynamical period is determined as an explicit arithmetical function of the n-tuple of Young diagrams specifying the level set. The inverse map, i.e., tropical Jacobi inversion is expressed in terms of a tropical Riemann theta function associated with the Bethe ansatz data. As an application, time average of some local variable is calculated.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.3759

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zbMATH Keywords

crystal basiscombinatorial Bethe ansatzinverse scattering/spectral methodsoliton cellular automatontropical Riemann theta function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of cellular automata (37B15) Inverse spectral and scattering methods for infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37K15) Combinatorics on words (68R15) Exactly solvable models; Bethe ansatz (82B23) Zeta and (L)-functions: analytic theory (11M99)

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• Geometric lifting of the integrable cellular automata with periodic boundary conditions
• Differential equations for the closed geometric crystal chains

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