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The order parameter of the chiral Potts model
An outstanding problem in statistical mechanics is the order parameter of the
chiral Potts model. An elegant conjecture for this was made in 1983. It has
since been successfully tested against series expansions, but as far as the
author is aware there is as yet no proof of the conjecture. Here we show that
if one makes a certain analyticity assumption similar to that used to derive
the free energy, then one can indeed verify the conjecture. The method is based
on the ``broken rapidity line'' approach pioneered by Jimbo, Miwa and
Nakayashiki.Comment: 29 pages, 7 figures. Citations made more explicit and some typos
correcte
Tetromino tilings and the Tutte polynomial
We consider tiling rectangles of size 4m x 4n by T-shaped tetrominoes. Each
tile is assigned a weight that depends on its orientation and position on the
lattice. For a particular choice of the weights, the generating function of
tilings is shown to be the evaluation of the multivariate Tutte polynomial
Z\_G(Q,v) (known also to physicists as the partition function of the Q-state
Potts model) on an (m-1) x (n-1) rectangle G, where the parameter Q and the
edge weights v can take arbitrary values depending on the tile weights.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figure
Analyticity and Integrabiity in the Chiral Potts Model
We study the perturbation theory for the general non-integrable chiral Potts
model depending on two chiral angles and a strength parameter and show how the
analyticity of the ground state energy and correlation functions dramatically
increases when the angles and the strength parameter satisfy the integrability
condition. We further specialize to the superintegrable case and verify that a
sum rule is obeyed.Comment: 31 pages in harvmac including 9 tables, several misprints eliminate
Star-Triangle Relation for a Three Dimensional Model
The solvable -chiral Potts model can be interpreted as a
three-dimensional lattice model with local interactions. To within a minor
modification of the boundary conditions it is an Ising type model on the body
centered cubic lattice with two- and three-spin interactions. The corresponding
local Boltzmann weights obey a number of simple relations, including a
restricted star-triangle relation, which is a modified version of the
well-known star-triangle relation appearing in two-dimensional models. We show
that these relations lead to remarkable symmetry properties of the Boltzmann
weight function of an elementary cube of the lattice, related to spatial
symmetry group of the cubic lattice. These symmetry properties allow one to
prove the commutativity of the row-to-row transfer matrices, bypassing the
tetrahedron relation. The partition function per site for the infinite lattice
is calculated exactly.Comment: 20 pages, plain TeX, 3 figures, SMS-079-92/MRR-020-92. (corrupted
figures replaced
Bethe Equations "on the Wrong Side of Equator"
We analyse the famous Baxter's equations for () spin chain
and show that apart from its usual polynomial (trigonometric) solution, which
provides the solution of Bethe-Ansatz equations, there exists also the second
solution which should corresponds to Bethe-Ansatz beyond . This second
solution of Baxter's equation plays essential role and together with the first
one gives rise to all fusion relations.Comment: 13 pages, original paper was spoiled during transmissio
Absence of Phase Transition for Antiferromagnetic Potts Models via the Dobrushin Uniqueness Theorem
We prove that the -state Potts antiferromagnet on a lattice of maximum
coordination number exhibits exponential decay of correlations uniformly at
all temperatures (including zero temperature) whenever . We also prove
slightly better bounds for several two-dimensional lattices: square lattice
(exponential decay for ), triangular lattice (), hexagonal
lattice (), and Kagom\'e lattice (). The proofs are based on
the Dobrushin uniqueness theorem.Comment: 32 pages including 3 figures. Self-unpacking file containing the tex
file, the needed macros (epsf.sty, indent.sty, subeqnarray.sty, and
eqsection.sty) and the 3 ps file
Exact solution and interfacial tension of the six-vertex model with anti-periodic boundary conditions
We consider the six-vertex model with anti-periodic boundary conditions
across a finite strip. The row-to-row transfer matrix is diagonalised by the
`commuting transfer matrices' method. {}From the exact solution we obtain an
independent derivation of the interfacial tension of the six-vertex model in
the anti-ferroelectric phase. The nature of the corresponding integrable
boundary condition on the spin chain is also discussed.Comment: 18 pages, LaTeX with 1 PostScript figur
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