Complex WKB method for adiabatic perturbations of a periodic Schrödinger operator (Q549533)

The paper considers the periodic Schrödinger operator \[ -\frac{d^{2}\psi }{dx^{2}}+(V(x)+W(\varepsilon x))\psi =E\psi ,\;x\in\mathbb{R}, \] where \(E\) is the spectral parameter, \(\varepsilon \) is a small parameter, \(V\) is a real valued \(1\)-periodic function from \(L_{loc}^{2}(\mathbb{R})\) and \(W\) is an analytic function in the strip of the form \(\delta =\left\{ \xi \in\mathbb{C}:y_{1}<\text{Im}\xi <y_{2}\right\}\). The author presents an analog of the complex WKB method developed for studying effects of adiabatic perturbations of the periodic Schrödinger operator.