Algebraic and analytic properties of the one-dimensional Hubbard model

Abstract

We reconsider the quantum inverse scattering approach to the one-dimensional Hubbard model and work out some of its basic features so far omitted in the literature. It is our aim to show that the R-matrix and monodromy matrix of the Hubbard model, which have now been known for ten years, have good elementary properties. We provide a meromorphic parametrization of the transfer matrix in terms of elliptic functions. We identify the momentum operator for lattice fermions in the expansion of the transfer matrix with respect to the spectral parameter and thereby show the locality and translational invariance of all higher conserved quantities. We work out the transformation properties of the monodromy matrix under the su(2) Lie algebra of rotations and under the -pairing su(2) Lie algebra. Our results imply invariance of the transfer matrix for the model on a chain with an even number of sites.