The Hubbard chain:: Lieb-Wu equations and norm of the eigenfunctions

We conjecture that the square of the norm of the Hubbard wave function is proportional to the determinant of a matrix, which is obtained by linearization of the Lieb-Wu equations around a solution. This means that in the vicinity of a solution the Lieb-Wu equations are non-degenerate, if the corresponding wave function is non-zero. We further derive an action that generates the Lieb-Wu equations and express our determinant formula for the square of the norm in terms of the Hessian determinant of this action. (C) 1999 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.