Integrability of planar-algebraic models

Abstract

Abstract The quantum inverse scattering method is a scheme for solving integrable models in 1 + 1 dimensions, building on an R-matrix that satisfies the Yang–Baxter equation (YBE) and in terms of which one constructs a commuting family of transfer matrices. In the standard formulation, this R-matrix acts on a tensor product of vector spaces. Here, we relax this tensorial property and develop a framework for describing and analysing integrable models based on planar algebras, allowing non-separable R-operators satisfying generalised YBEs. We also re-evaluate the notion of integrals of motion and characterise when an (algebraic) transfer operator is polynomial in a single integral of motion. We refer to such models as polynomially integrable. In an eight-vertex model, we demonstrate that the corresponding transfer operator is polynomial in the natural Hamiltonian. In the Temperley–Lieb loop model with loop fugacity β ∈ C , we likewise find that, for all but finitely many β-values, the transfer operator is polynomial in the usual Hamiltonian element of the Temperley–Lieb algebra T L n ( β ) , at least for n ⩽ 17 . Moreover, we find that this model admits a second canonical Hamiltonian, and that this Hamiltonian also acts as a polynomial integrability generator for small n and all but finitely many β-values.