The density of states of a local almost periodic operator in R^ν (Q4811096)

The author considers a symmetric, coercive, almost periodic sesquilinear form \(\ell\) on \(H^m(\mathbb{R}^\nu)\). Let \(L\) be the self-adjoint operator in \(L^2(\mathbb{R}^\nu)\), determined by \(\ell\). It is assumed that \(L\) is local in the sense that \(\ell(f,g)=0\) for \(f,g\in C^\infty_{\text{comp}}\) with disjoint support. For a bounded domain \(G\subset\mathbb{R}^\nu\) with \(|\partial G|=0\), let \(rG\) denote the image of \(G\) under the mapping \(x\mapsto rx\). For a Borel set \(\Delta\subset\mathbb{R}\), define \[ \mu(\Delta;L_{rG})= \text{tr}\,E_{rG} (\Delta), \] where \(E_{rG}\) is the spectral resolution of \(S_{rG}\) and by \(S_{rG}\) is denoted the operator in \(L^2(rG)\) which corresponds to the restriction of \(\ell\) to \(H^m_0(rG)\). Then \(\frac{\mu(\cdot; L_{rG})} {| rG|}\to \mu(\cdot,L)\) as \(r\to\infty\) weakly, where \(\mu (\cdot, L)\) is a Borel measure on \(\mathbb{R}\) with support \(\sigma(L)\).