Reply to ``Comment on 'Two Fermi points in the exact solution of the Kondo problem'''

Abstract

In his Comment N. Andrei questions the use of symmetric limits of integration of the Bethe ansatz integral equations in my recent study devoted to some features of the Bethe ansatz solution of the Kondo problem. In this Reply I show that the statement of the Comment about the asymmetry of integration limits contradicts the distribution of the quantum numbers in discrete Bethe ansatz equations. I also argue that the asymmetry of the excitation energy supported in the Comment conradicts the initial chiral symmetry of conduction electrons in the physical Kondo problem. Hence the distribution of spin rapidities has to be symmetric for any magnetization.