Periodicity and integrability for the cube recurrence

Abstract

Zamolodchikov periodicity is a property of $T$- and $Y$-systems, arising in the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz. Zamolodchikov integrability was recently considered as its affine analog in our joint work with P. Pylyavskyy. Here we prove periodicity and integrability for similar discrete dynamical systems based on the cube recurrence, also known as the discrete BKP equation. The periodicity part was conjectured by Henriques in 2007.