A conjecture for the superintegrable chiral Potts model
Abstract
We adapt our previous results for the ``partition function'' of the superintegrable chiral Potts model with open boundaries to obtain the corresponding matrix elements of e-α H, where H is the associated hamiltonian. The spontaneous magnetization Mr can be expressed in terms of particular matrix elements of e-α H Sr1 -β H, where S1 is a diagonal matrix.We present a conjecture for these matrix elements as an m by m determinant, where m is proportional to the width of the lattice. The author has previously derived the spontaneous magnetization of the chiral Potts model by analytic means, but hopes that this work will facilitate a more algebraic derivation, similar to that of Yang for the Ising model.
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