On the Birkhoff-Tamarkin-Langer conditions and a conjecture of Davies (Q498180)

This paper studies the class of matrices \(A_0\) and \(A_1\) in the differential operator \(L=A_0(x)\partial_x^1+A_1(x)\partial_x^0\) for which the following assertions are valid: a) the spectrum of \(L\) has certain representation (see [\textit{S. G. Scott}, Commun. Math. Phys. 173, No. 1, 43--76 (1995; Zbl 0840.58049)]) and b) if \(N(E)\) is the number of eigenvalues of \(L\) in a disk of ratio \(E\), then \(N(E)\sim\frac{E}{2\pi}\int_0^1b(x)dx+\mathcal{O}(1)\) as \(E\to\infty\), where \(b(x)\) is the perimeter of the convex hull of the set of eigenvalues of the matrix \(A_0^{-1}(x)\). It turns out that \(A_0\) and \(A_1\) should be piecewise analytic in a certain sense.