The algebraic Bethe ansatz can be performed rather abstractly for whole
classes of models sharing the same R-matrix, the only prerequisite being the
existence of an appropriate pseudo vacuum state. Here we perform the algebraic
Bethe ansatz for all models with 9×9, rational, gl(1∣2)-invariant
R-matrix and all three possibilities of choosing the grading. Our Bethe
ansatz solution applies, for instance, to the supersymmetric t-J model, the
supersymmetric U model and a number of interesting impurity models. It may be
extended to obtain the quantum transfer matrix spectrum for this class of
models. The properties of a specific model enter the Bethe ansatz solution
(i.e. the expression for the transfer matrix eigenvalue and the Bethe ansatz
equations) through the three pseudo vacuum eigenvalues of the diagonal elements
of the monodromy matrix which in this context are called the parameters of the
model.Comment: paragraph added in section 3, reference added, version to appear in
J.Phys.