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New Developments in the Eight Vertex Model

Statistical Mechanics 2007-05-23 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We demonstrate that the Q matrix introduced in Baxter's 1972 solution of the eight vertex model has some eigenvectors which are not eigenvectors of the spin reflection operator and conjecture a new functional equation for Q(v) which both contains the Bethe equation that gives the eigenvalues of the transfer matrix and computes the degeneracies of these eigenvalues.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0207177,
  title  = {New Developments in the Eight Vertex Model},
  author = {Klaus Fabricius and Barry M. McCoy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0207177},
  year   = {2007}
}

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12 pages. Final version which will be published in J. Stat. Phys