  Exact ground state properties of antiferromagnetic Heisenberg spin rings with
isotropic next neighbour interaction are presented for various numbers of spin
sites and spin quantum numbers. Earlier work by Peierls, Marshall, Lieb,
Schultz and Mattis focused on bipartite lattices and is not applicable to rings
with an odd number of spins. With the help of exact diagonalization methods we
find a more general systematic behaviour which for instance relates the number
of spin sites and the individual spin quantum numbers to the degeneracy of the
ground state. These numerical findings all comply with rigorous proofs in the
cases where a general analysis could be carried out. Therefore it can be
plausibly conjectured that the ascertained properties hold for ground states of
arbitrary antiferromagnetic Heisenberg spin rings.
