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Integrability of rank-two web models

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-11-28 v1 Statistical Mechanics Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We continue our work on lattice models of webs, which generalise the well-known loop models to allow for various kinds of bifurcations [arXiv:2101.00282, arXiv:2107.10106]. Here we define new web models corresponding to each of the rank-two spiders considered by Kuperberg [arXiv:q-alg/9712003]. These models are based on the A2A_2, G2G_2 and B2B_2 Lie algebras, and their local vertex configurations are intertwiners of the corresponding qq-deformed quantum algebras. In all three cases we define a corresponding model on the hexagonal lattice, and in the case of B2B_2 also on the square lattice. For specific root-of-unity choices of qq, we show the equivalence to a number of three- and four-state spin models on the dual lattice. The main result of this paper is to exhibit integrable manifolds in the parameter spaces of each web model. For qq on the unit circle, these models are critical and we characterise the corresponding conformal field theories via numerical diagonalisation of the transfer matrix. In the A2A_2 case we find two integrable regimes. The first one contains a dense and a dilute phase, for which we have analytic control via a Coulomb gas construction, while the second one is more elusive and likely conceals non-compact physics. Three particular points correspond to a three-state spin model with plaquette interactions, of which the one in the second regime appears to present a new universality class. In the G2G_2 case we identify four regimes numerically. The B2B_2 case is too unwieldy to be studied numerically in the general case, but it found analytically to contain a simpler sub-model based on generators of the dilute Birman-Murakami-Wenzl algebra.

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@article{arxiv.2311.14805,
  title  = {Integrability of rank-two web models},
  author = {Augustin Lafay and Azat M. Gainutdinov and Jesper Lykke Jacobsen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.14805},
  year   = {2023}
}

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69 pages

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