“…Definitions, initial data, and cluster algebra connection The so-called T -systems are 2 + 1-dimensional discrete integrable systems of evolution equations in a discrete time variable k ∈ Z. They were introduced in the context of integrable quantum spin chains, as a system of equations satisfied by the eigenvalues of transfer matrices of generalized Heisenberg magnets, with the symmetry of a given Lie algebra [21]. In the case of type A, the T -system equation is also known as the octahedron recurrence, and appears to be central in a number of combinatorial objects, such as the lambda-determinant and the Alternating Sign Matrices [24] [8], the puzzles for computing Littlewood-Richardson coefficients [20], generalizations of Coxeter-Conway frieze patterns [5][1] [3], and the domino tilings of the Aztec diamond [12] [25].…”