Bethe wavefunction /
xv, 324 p. translated from the French original 'La fonction d'onde de Bethe' (1983) by Jean-Sébastien Caux. Content notes : 1. The chain of spin-1/2 atoms--
2. Thermodynamic limit of the Heisenberg-Ising chain--
3. Thermodynamics of the spin-1/2 chain: Limiting cases--
4. -Interacting bosons--
5. Beth wavefunctions associated with a feflection group--
6. Continuum limit of the spin chain--
7. The six-vertex model--
8. The eight-vertex model--
9. The eitht-vertex model: Eigenvectors and thermodynamics--
10. Identical particles with -interactions--
11. Identical particles with -interactions: General solution for two internal states--
12. Indentical particles with -interactions: General solution for n components and limiting cases--
13. Various corollaries and extensions--
14. On the Toda chain--
References--
Index. SCIENCE -- Energy. SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General.
