Folding QQ-relations and transfer matrix eigenvalues: Towards a unified approach to Bethe ansatz for super spin chains

Abstract

Extending the method proposed in [1], we derive QQ-relations (functional relations among Baxter Q-functions) and T-functions (eigenvalues of transfer matrices) for fusion vertex models associated with the twisted quantum affine superalgebras Uq(gl(2r+1|2s)(2)), Uq(gl(2r|2s+1)(2)), Uq(gl(2r|2s)(2)), Uq(osp(2r|2s)(2)) and the untwisted quantum affine orthosymplectic superalgebras Uq(osp(2r+1|2s)(1)) and Uq(osp(2r|2s)(1)) (and their Yangian counterparts, Y(osp(2r+1|2s)) and Y(osp(2r|2s))) as reductions (a kind of folding) of those associated with Uq(gl(M|N)(1)). In particular, we reproduce previously proposed generating functions (difference operators) of the T-functions for the symmetric or anti-symmetric representations, and tableau sum expressions for more general representations for orthosymplectic superalgebras [2,3], and obtain Wronskian-type expressions (analogues of Weyl-type character formulas) for them. T-functions for spinorial representations are related to reductions of those for asymptotic limits of typical representations of Uq(gl(M|N)(1)).

Keywords

• Baxter Q-function
• QQ-relation
• Bethe ansatz
• Orthosymplectic superalgebras
• Wronskian formula