Twisted Heisenberg chain and the six-vertex model with DWBC

In this work we establish a relation between the six-vertex model with Domain Wall Boundary Conditions (DWBC) and the $XXZ$ spin chain with anti-periodic twisted boundaries. More precisely, we demonstrate a formal relation between the zeroes of the partition function of the six-vertex model with DWBC and the zeroes of the transfer matrix eigenvalues associated with the six-vertex model with a particular non-diagonal boundary twist.