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math-ph2023
A Q-operator for open spin chains II: boundary factorization
Alec Cooper, Bart Vlaar, Robert Weston
One of the features of Baxter's Q-operators for many closed spin chain models is that all transfer matrices arise as products of two Q-operators with shifts in the spectral paramet…
math.CO2012★ 4 cited
Martin Gardner's minimum no-3-in-a-line problem
Alec S. Cooper, Oleg Pikhurko, John R. Schmitt +1
In Martin Gardner's October, 1976 Mathematical Games column in Scientific American, he posed the following problem: "What is the smallest number of [queens] you can put on a board…