The one-dimensional SU
(n) Hubbard model is investigated using an analytical, perturbative renormalization-group treatment in the fermionic formulation of the model for
n>2. It is found that in the half-filled case, the umklapp processes couple the spin and charge degrees of freedom and generate a finite gap for arbitrary finite positive
U. This behavior is thus different from that at
1∕n filling, where there is one particle per site, in which case the dynamics of the two degrees of freedom can be separated and a critical
Uc is needed for the Mott transition.