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Baxter's Q-operators and operatorial Backlund flow for quantum (super)-spin chains

Mathematical Physics 2012-04-18 v3 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems

Abstract

We propose the operatorial form of Baxter's TQ-relations in a general form of the operatorial B\"acklund flow describing the nesting process for the inhomogeneous rational gl(K|M) quantum (super)spin chains with twisted periodic boundary conditions. The full set of Q-operators and T-operators on all levels of nesting is explicitly defined. The results are based on a generalization of the identities among the group characters and their group co-derivatives with respect to the twist matrix, found by one of the authors and P.Vieira [V.Kazakov and P.Vieira, JHEP 0810 (2008) 050 [arXiv:0711.2470]]. Our formalism, based on this new "master" identity, allows a systematic and rather straightforward derivation of the whole set of nested Bethe ansatz equations for the spectrum of quantum integrable spin chains, starting from the R-matrix.

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@article{arxiv.1010.4022,
  title  = {Baxter's Q-operators and operatorial Backlund flow for quantum (super)-spin chains},
  author = {Vladimir Kazakov and Sebastien Leurent and Zengo Tsuboi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.4022},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

31 pages, 2 figures ; v2 : a few explanations and appendices added, a new concise proof of the master identity presented ; v3 : a few minor typos corrected

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