Bethe Ansatz and Quantum Groups: The Light--Cone Approach. II. From RSOS($p+1$) models to $p-$restricted Sine--Gordon Field Theories

TL;DR

This paper analyzes RSOS models on the light-cone lattice using quantum group representations, deriving the lattice S-matrix of kinks and connecting the models to p-restricted Sine-Gordon field theories in the continuum limit.

Contribution

It provides a microscopic derivation of the lattice S-matrix for RSOS models and clarifies their continuum limit as p-restricted Sine-Gordon theories.

Findings

Disentangles type II representations of SU(2)_q from the SOS spectrum.

Identifies the rule for quantum group reduction via singular roots in Bethe Ansatz solutions.

Derives the lattice S-matrix of massive kinks from microscopic considerations.

Abstract

We solve the RSOS($p$) models on the light--cone lattice with fixed boundary conditions by disentangling the type II representations of $SU(2)_q$, at $q=e^{i\pi/p}$, from the full SOS spectrum obtained through Algebraic Bethe Ansatz. The rule which realizes the quantum group reduction to the RSOS states is that there must not be {\it singular} roots in the solutions of the Bethe Ansatz equations describing the states with quantum spin $J<(p-1)/2$. By studying how this rule is active on the particle states, we are able to give a microscopic derivation of the lattice $S-$matrix of the massive kinks. The correspondence between the light--cone Six--Vertex model and the Sine--Gordon field theory implies that the continuum limit of the RSOS($p+1$) model is to be identified with the $p-$restricted Sine--Gordon field theory.