Solutions of the three magnon bound state equation. I

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Recently several unphysical solutions of the three magnon bound state equation for the isotropic Heisenberg Hamiltonian have been found, and one unphysical solution for the Hamiltonian with longitudinal anisotropy has been computed. Here we complete the work for such unphysical solutions for all anisotropy from the Ising to the isotropic Heisenberg limit by directly solving the integral equation. Two types of wavefunctions are constructed. The eigenvalue of the first type satisfies a cubic equation in general, but gives only a real root in the Ising limit and a pair of complex conjugate roots in the isotropic limit. The other type has a single eigenvalue; this one, previously known numerically, is shown to have a simple analytic form.