The ground-state energy of the one-dimensional Hubbard model is calculated within the ladder approximation; from the comparison with the exact results in the repulsive case, it follows that the approximation is good at low densities or small couplings. The ladder approximation can be improved by imposing a self-consistency condition; using a simple assumption, the results become close to the exact ones in a large range of the model parameters.
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