Inner products of Bethe states as partial domain wall partition functions

We study the inner product of Bethe states in the inhomogeneous periodic XXX spin-1/2 chain of length L, which is given by the Slavnov determinant formula. We show that the inner product of an on-shell M -magnon state with a generic M -magnon state is given by the same expression as the inner product of a 2 M -magnon state with a vacuum descendent. The second inner product is proportional to the partition function of the six-vertex model on a rectangular L × 2 M grid, with partial domain-wall boundary conditions.