We study the persistent currents induced by both the Aharonov-Bohm and Aharonov-Casher effects in a one-dimensional mesoscopic ring coupled to a side-branch quantum dot at Kondo resonance. For privileged values of the Aharonov-Bohm-Casher fluxes, the problem can be mapped onto an integrable model, exactly solvable by a Bethe ansatz. In the case of a pure magnetic AharonovBohm flux, we find that the presence of the quantum dot has no effect on the persistent current. In contrast, the Kondo resonance interferes with the spin-dependent Aharonov-Casher effect to induce a current which, in the strong-coupling limit, is independent of the number of electrons in the ring. The Kondo effect-where the interaction between a local spin and free electrons produces a strongly-correlated state below a characteristic temperature T K -has become one of the paradigms in the study of correlated electron behavior [1]. In a recent experimental breakthrough [2], a tunable Kondo effect was observed in ultra small semiconductor quantum dots connected capacitively to a gate and via tunnel junctions to electrodes. By sweeping the gate voltage, the dot's highest spin-degenerate level ǫ d can be tuned relative to the chemical potential µ of the leads. This level is occupied by a single electron when) the oneparticle resonance width of the dot, and V k the tunneling matrix elements through the junction barriers. Below a temperature T K ∼ exp(−π|µ − ǫ d |/Γ d ) the resulting free spin on the dot forms a singlet with the electron spins in the leads via virtual co-tunneling processes. A fingerprint of this strongly correlated state is the dramatic enhancement of the local spectral density at the Fermi level. As predicted theoretically [3,4] and as seen in the experiments [2], this makes the dot transparent to electron transport when T ≪ T K .An interesting problem is how the persistent current (PC) of a multiply connected system coupled to a quantum dot is affected by a Kondo resonance. A PC is the equilibrium response [5][6][7] to a magnetic AharonovBohm (AB) flux [8] and/or an Aharonov-Casher "flux" [9] of a charged wire piercing the system. In contrast to ordinary (nonequilibrium) currents, as measured in the experiments referred to above, a PC requires for its existence that an electron maintains its phase coherence while circling the ring, and should thus be sensitive to scattering in the quantum dot [10]. The PC of a onedimensional (1D) ring coupled to a quantum dot was previously investigated by Büttiker and one of the authors [11], considering two different topologies: one in which the electron had to tunnel through the quantum dot in order to encircle the flux (embedded dot), and one in which an intact ring was coupled via a tunnel barrier to an adjacent quantum dot (sidebranch dot). However, in Ref.[11], the energy level spacing δ in the mesoscopic ring was taken to be much greater than T K , so that although a singlet state was formed between the electron on the dot and those within the ring, this state had more in common with a (tw...