Domain Wall Six-Vertex Model with Half-Turn Symmetry

Abstract

We obtain asymptotic formulas for the partition function of the six-vertex model with domain wall boundary conditions and half-turn symmetry in each of the phase regions. The proof is based on the Izergin–Korepin–Kuperberg determinantal formula for the partition function and its reduction to orthogonal polynomials, and on an asymptotic analysis of the orthogonal polynomials under consideration in the framework of the Riemann–Hilbert approach.