%0 Journal Article %T Inhomogeneous T-Q equation for the open XXX chain with general boundary terms: completeness and arbitrary spin %A Rafael I. Nepomechie %J Physics %D 2013 %I arXiv %R 10.1088/1751-8113/46/44/442002 %X An inhomogeneous T-Q equation has recently been proposed by Cao, Yang, Shi and Wang for the open spin-1/2 XXX chain with general (nondiagonal) boundary terms. We argue that a simplified version of this equation describes all the eigenvalues of the transfer matrix of this model. We also propose a generating function for the inhomogeneous T-Q equations of arbitrary spin. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.5049v2