Exact solution of the Seven-Vertex Model on a dynamical lattice

We give the complete solution of the one-parameter deformation of the six-vertex model on dynamical lattice introduced in [1] and dubbed gravitational seven-vertex model.

The statistical model in question is mapped to a gas of self- and mutually avoiding loops on dynamical triangulations, with a temperature coupling controlling the volume not occupied by loops.

The phase diagram is characterised by massive, dilute and dense critical phases, similarly to the gravitational O(n) loop model.

There is however an important difference -- in our model the weights of the loops are not topological but depend on the form of the loop and on the curvature defects of the lattice via lattice spin connection.

The seven-vertex model on dynamical lattice is nevertheless exactly solvable after being reformulated as a large-N matrix model, which we will refer to as 7vMM, and the solution in the scaling limit was found in [1].

Here we derive the full solution in terms of Jacobi theta functions and present the (non-algebraic) spectral curve of 7vMM in a parametric form.

We obtain the phase diagram in the space of the two coupling constants -- the cosmological constant and the temperature -- and identify the critical phases along the boundary of the physical domain.

We derive the scaling solution of [1] as the asymptotic of the full solution in the vicinity of the tricritical point separating the phases of dense and massive loops.