Spectral properties of Schrödinger operators on decorated graphs (Q2388201)

The authors present several results concerning the spectrum of a Schrödinger operator \(H_\Lambda\), which is gauge-periodic on periodic decorated graphs, which are a special case of periodic hybrid manifolds and, in turn, include metric graphs (quantum networks) as a special case. For example, they prove that under certain assumptions the spectrum of \(H_\Lambda\) has a zone structure without any singular continuous component (but \(H_\Lambda\) can have eigenvalues). Also, the Bethe-Sommerfeld hypothesis is not true for a rather wide class of periodic decorated graphs: the spectrum of \(H_\Lambda\) has infinitely many lacunas both in the sense of the Lebesgue-Riemann measure and in the sense of the Baire category. There are no proofs.