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    A new Q-matrix in the Eight-Vertex Model

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    We construct a QQ-matrix for the eight-vertex model at roots of unity for crossing parameter η=2mK/L\eta=2mK/L with odd LL, a case for which the existing constructions do not work. The new QQ-matrix \Q depends as usual on the spectral parameter and also on a free parameter tt. For t=0t=0 \Q has the standard properties. For t≠0t\neq 0, however, it does not commute with the operator SS and not with itself for different values of the spectral parameter. We show that the six-vertex limit of \Q(v,t=iK'/2) exists.Comment: 10 pages section on quasiperiodicity added, typo corrected, published versio

    The Q-operator and Functional Relations of the Eight-vertex Model at Root-of-unity η=2mKN\eta = \frac{2m K}{N} for odd N

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    Following Baxter's method of producing Q_{72}-operator, we construct the Q-operator of the root-of-unity eight-vertex model for the crossing parameter η=2mKN\eta = \frac{2m K}{N} with odd NN where Q_{72} does not exist. We use this new Q-operator to study the functional relations in the Fabricius-McCoy comparison between the root-of-unity eight-vertex model and the superintegrable N-state chiral Potts model. By the compatibility of the constructed Q-operator with the structure of Baxter's eight-vertex (solid-on-solid) SOS model, we verify the set of functional relations of the root-of-unity eight-vertex model using the explicit form of the Q-operator and fusion weights of SOS model.Comment: Latex 28 page; Typos corrected, minor changes in presentation, References added and updated-Journal versio

    COMPLETE SOLUTION OF THE XXZ-MODEL ON FINITE RINGS. DYNAMICAL STRUCTURE FACTORS AT ZERO TEMPERATURE.

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    The finite size effects of the dynamical structure factors in the XXZ-model are studied in the euclidean time (τ)(\tau)-representation. Away from the critical momentum p=πp=\pi finite size effects turn out to be small except for the large τ\tau limit. The large finite size effects at the critical momentum p=πp=\pi signal the emergence of infrared singularities in the spectral (ω)(\omega)-representation of the dynamical structure factors.Comment: PostScript file with 12 pages + 11 figures uuencoded compresse

    Selecting medicinal plants for cultivation at Nqabara on the Eastern Cape Wild Coast, South Africa

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    [From introduction:] The intensive harvesting of medicinal plants for commercial trade in South Africa poses a threat to many species. Cultivation has therefore been considered as an alternative to collection in the wild. This paper aims to assess the feasibility of cultivating medicinal plants in the Nqabara Administrative Area on South Africa's Wild Coast. A combination of participatory and formal research methods was used to collect data on the importance of medicinal plants, collection localities, market prices, the time spent collecting plants and their ease of cultivation. The values attached to medicinal plants were mainly dependent on their market prices. Four of the five Nqabara traditional healers interviewed cultivated these plants in their home gardens, but many medicinal products were obtained in indigenous forests from the bark of large trees, which were unsuitable for cultivation. Collectors said that the proximity of forests to their homesteads and the richness of forests in medicinal plants influenced their selection of harvesting localities. There was no correlation between time spent collecting species and their market prices. These prices were, however, positively correlated with the species' perceived healing properties. Users acknowledged that harvesting had an adverse effect on large trees, are eager to cultivate them and are taking action to conserve indigenous forests. Community-based enterprises should focus on species that are easy to cultivate and have a high demand, such as Stangeria eriopus, Acalypha glabrata and Behnia reticulata but not Araujia sericifera, which is exotic and abundant. The main barriers to commercial cultivation are availability of suitable land, water, lack of start-up capital, and access to markets and to seeds. Cultivation of medicinal plants could contribute to the economic empowerment of women in rural areas

    The Dynamical Fingerprint of Core Scouring in Massive Elliptical Galaxies

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    The most massive elliptical galaxies have low-density centers or cores that differ dramatically from the high-density centers of less massive ellipticals and bulges of disk galaxies. These cores have been interpreted as the result of mergers of supermassive black hole binaries, which depopulate galaxy centers by gravitationally slingshotting central stars toward large radii. Such binaries naturally form in mergers of luminous galaxies. Here, we analyze the population of central stellar orbits in 11 massive elliptical galaxies that we observed with the integral field spectrograph SINFONI at the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope. Our dynamical analysis is orbit-based and includes the effects of a central black hole, the mass distribution of the stars, and a dark matter halo. We show that the use of integral field kinematics and the inclusion of dark matter is important to conclude upon the distribution of stellar orbits in galaxy centers. Six of our galaxies are core galaxies. In these six galaxies, but not in the galaxies without cores, we detect a coherent lack of stars on radial orbits in the core region and a uniform excess of radial orbits outside of it: when scaled by the core radius, the radial profiles of the classical anisotropy parameter beta are nearly identical in core galaxies. Moreover, they match quantitatively the predictions of black hole binary simulations, providing the first convincing dynamical evidence for core scouring in the most massive elliptical galaxies.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, accepted by Ap

    The Q-operator for Root-of-Unity Symmetry in Six Vertex Model

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    We construct the explicit QQ-operator incorporated with the sl2sl_2-loop-algebra symmetry of the six-vertex model at roots of unity. The functional relations involving the QQ-operator, the six-vertex transfer matrix and fusion matrices are derived from the Bethe equation, parallel to the Onsager-algebra-symmetry discussion in the superintegrable NN-state chiral Potts model. We show that the whole set of functional equations is valid for the QQ-operator. Direct calculations in certain cases are also given here for clearer illustration about the nature of the QQ-operator in the symmetry study of root-of-unity six-vertex model from the functional-relation aspect.Comment: Latex 26 Pages; Typos and small errors corrected, Some explanations added for clearer presentation, References updated-Journal version with modified labelling of sections and formula

    XXZ Bethe states as highest weight vectors of the sl2sl_2 loop algebra at roots of unity

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    We show that every regular Bethe ansatz eigenvector of the XXZ spin chain at roots of unity is a highest weight vector of the sl2sl_2 loop algebra, for some restricted sectors with respect to eigenvalues of the total spin operator SZS^Z, and evaluate explicitly the highest weight in terms of the Bethe roots. We also discuss whether a given regular Bethe state in the sectors generates an irreducible representation or not. In fact, we present such a regular Bethe state in the inhomogeneous case that generates a reducible Weyl module. Here, we call a solution of the Bethe ansatz equations which is given by a set of distinct and finite rapidities {\it regular Bethe roots}. We call a nonzero Bethe ansatz eigenvector with regular Bethe roots a {\it regular Bethe state}.Comment: 40pages; revised versio

    Temperature dependent spatial oscillations in the correlations of the XXZ spin chain

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    We study the correlation for the XXZ chain in the massless attractive (ferromagnetic) region at positive temperatures by means of a numerical study of the quantum transfer matrix. We find that there is a range of temperature where the behavior of the correlation for large separations is oscillatory with an incommensurate period which depends on temperature.Comment: 4 pages, REVTEX, 6 table
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