QUANTUM AFFINE SYMMETRY IN VERTEX MODELS
1993 ◽
Vol 08
(08)
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pp. 1479-1511
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Keyword(s):
We study the higher spin analogs of the six-vertex model on the basis of its symmetry under the quantum affine algebra [Formula: see text]. Using the method developed recently for the XXZ spin chain, we formulate the space of states, transfer matrix, vacuum, creation/ annihilation operators of particles, and local operators, purely in the language of representation theory. We find that, regardless of the level of the representation involved, the particles have spin 1/2, and that the n-particle space has an RSOS type structure rather than a simple tensor product of the one-particle space. This agrees with the picture proposed earlier by Reshetikhin.