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Bijective combinatorial proof of the commutation of transfer matrices in the dense O(1) loop model

Mathematical Physics 2017-03-14 v1 Combinatorics math.MP Probability

Abstract

The dense O(1) loop model is a statistical physics model with connections to the quantum XXZ spin chain, alternating sign matrices, the six-vertex model and critical bond percolation on the square lattice. When cylindrical boundary conditions are imposed, the model possesses a commuting family of transfer matrices. The original proof of the commutation property is algebraic and is based on the Yang-Baxter equation. In this paper we give a new proof of this fact using a direct combinatorial bijection.

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@article{arxiv.1407.5357,
  title  = {Bijective combinatorial proof of the commutation of transfer matrices in the dense O(1) loop model},
  author = {Ron Peled and Dan Romik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.5357},
  year   = {2017}
}

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18 pages, many figures