Abstract
The spontaneous magnetization of a two-dimensional lattice model can be expressed in terms of the partition function W of a system with fixed boundary spins and an extra weight dependent on the value of a particular central spin. For the superintegrable case of the chiral Potts model with cylindrical boundary conditions, W can be expressed in terms of reduced Hamiltonians H and a central spin operator S. We conjectured in a previous paper that W can be written as a determinant, similar to that of the Ising model. Here we generalize this conjecture to any Hamiltonians that satisfy a more general Onsager algebra, and give a conjecture for the elements of S.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 798-813 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Journal of Statistical Physics |
| Volume | 137 |
| Issue number | 5 |
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| Publication status | Published - Dec 2009 |