Solution of the one-dimensional electron gas on a lattice

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Abstract
An exact solution of the one-dimensional electron gas on a lattice is given for the special case in which two of the four coupling constants have particular values. It is shown that umklapp scattering has the same effect on the charge-density waves as backward scattering across the Fermi "surface" has on the spin-density waves and that the method of Luther and Emery can be used to solve this more general problem. For repulsive electron-electron interactions the umklapp scattering produces a gap in the charge-density wave spectrum and this appears for low-lying excitations when there is a half-filled band. The use of renormalization-group scaling to solve for general values of the coupling constants is discussed.