Completeness of Wronskian Bethe Equations for Rational $${\mathfrak {\mathfrak {gl}}_{{{\mathsf {m}}}|{{\mathsf {n}}}}}$$ Spin Chains

Abstract

We consider rational integrable supersymmetric $${\mathfrak {\mathfrak {gl}}_{{{\mathsf {m}}}|{{\mathsf {n}}}}}$$ spin chains in the defining representation and prove the isomorphism between a commutative algebra of conserved charges (the Bethe algebra) and a polynomial ring (the Wronskian algebra) defined by functional relations between Baxter Q-functions that we call Wronskian Bethe equations. These equations, in contrast to standard nested Bethe equations, admit only physical solutions for any value of inhomogeneities and furthermore we prove that the algebraic number of solutions to these equations is equal to the dimension of the spin chain Hilbert space (modulo relevant symmetries). Both twisted and twist-less periodic boundary conditions are considered, the isomorphism statement uses, as a sufficient condition, that the spin chain inhomogeneities $${{\theta }_{\ell }}$$ , $$\ell =1,\ldots ,L$$ satisfy $${{\theta }_{\ell }}+\hbar \ne {{\theta }_{\ell '}}$$ for $$\ell <\ell '$$ . Counting of solutions is done in two independent ways: by computing a character of the Wronskian algebra and by explicitly solving the Bethe equations in certain scaling regimes supplemented with a proof that the algebraic number of solutions is the same for any value of $$\theta _\ell $$ . In particular, we consider the regime $$\theta _{\ell +1}/\theta _{\ell }\gg 1$$ for the twist-less chain where we succeed to provide explicit solutions and their systematic labelling with standard Young tableaux.