Generalized Coordinate Bethe Ansatz and Quantum Integrability of the Time-Dependent Massive Thirring Model

Abstract

We develop a generalized coordinate Bethe-ansatz framework for the massive Thirring model with an explicitly time-dependent fermion mass. Unlike the generalized Bethe ansatz for chiral quantum field theories, where particle transport acts in internal spin spaces and leads to quantum Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations, the present construction acts directly on particle coordinates and physical rapidities. Its central new feature is a rapidity lattice. Because the time-dependent mass couples right- and left-moving components already in the one-particle sector, a fixed-rapidity block is not closed under spatial winding. Periodicity therefore requires all sectors generated by the finite shift $β\toβ-p$. Particle exchange relates amplitudes on this lattice through scalar analytic difference equations of Ruijsenaars type, whose solutions determine the complete time-dependent many-body wavefunction. Consistency of the coordinate construction also selects an exponential evolution of the bare mass, providing a new realization of the time dependent integrability-renormalization group correspondence. In the static limit, the rapidity-lattice construction reduces to the conventional massive-Thirring Bethe equations. Through the massive-Thirring/sine Gordon equivalence, the result also connects this exact quantum construction to the generalized space-time dependent Lax formalism.