Deformation of the spectrum for Darboux-Treibich-Verdier potential along \(\mathrm{Re}\,\tau =\frac{1}{2}\) (Q6062685)

The paper under review deals with the spectrum \(\sigma(L)\) of the complex Hill operator \(L\) with Darboux-Treibich-Verdier potential \[ L=\frac{d^2}{dx^2}-6\varrho(x+z_0;\tau)-2\varrho(x+\frac{1}{2}+z_0;\tau) \text{ in } L^2 (\mathbb{R},\mathbb{C}). \] Here \(\varrho(z;\tau)\) is the Weierstrass elliptic function with periods 1, \(\tau\) and \(z_0 \in \mathbb{C}\) are chosen such that the differential operator \(L\) has no singularities in \(\mathbb{R}\). The author focuses on the deformation of the spectrum with \(\tau=\frac{1}{2}+ ib\) as \(b>0\) varies.