The spectrum of a periodic operator with a small localized perturbation (Q2518818)
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The spectrum of a periodic operator with a small localized perturbation (English)
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19 January 2009
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Let \(\mathcal{H}_0\) denote a self-adjoint realisation in \(L_2({\mathbb{R}})\) of \[ -\frac{d}{dx} p \frac{d}{dx}+q \] where \(p,q\) are real, periodic functions with period \(1,\) which are respectively piecewise continuously differentiable and piecewise continuous on \({\mathbb{R}}.\) The paper concerns the spectral properties of an operator \(\mathcal{H}_{\varepsilon} = \mathcal{H}_0 - \mathcal{L}_{\varepsilon},\) where \(\varepsilon\) is a small positive parameter and \(\mathcal{L}_{\varepsilon}\) is a linear operator which is zero outside a fixed interval \(Q\) and is uniformly bounded with respect to \(\varepsilon\) as a map of \(W_2^2(Q)\) into \(L_2(Q)\). Examples of the results established are the following. Theorem 1: for \(\varepsilon\) sufficiently small, \(\mathcal{H}_{\varepsilon}\) has the same continuous spectrum as \(\mathcal{H}_0\) and its point spectrum consists of at most a countable number of eigenvalues of finite multiplicity with no finite accumulation points; Theorem 2: for an arbitrary compact subset of \( \mathbb{C},\) the continuous spectrum of \(\mathcal{H}_{\varepsilon}\) has no embedded eigenvalues in \(K\) and any eigenvalue in \(K\) is simple. Examples of operators \(\mathcal{L}_{\varepsilon}\) are given.
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self-adjoint operator
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continuous spectrum
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point spectrum
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multiplicity
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embedded eigenvalues
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