Irreducibility of the Fermi surface for planar periodic graph operators

DOI10.1007/S11005-020-01311-YzbMATH Open1502.39010arXiv1909.04197OpenAlexW3043451540MaRDI QIDQ2198358FDOQ2198358

Authors: Wei Li, Stephen P. Shipman 

Publication date: 10 September 2020

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that the Fermi surface of a connected doubly periodic self-adjoint discrete graph operator is irreducible at all but finitely many energies provided that the graph (1) can be drawn in the plane without crossing edges (2) has positive coupling coefficients (3) has two vertices per period. If "positive" is relaxed to "complex", the only cases of reducible Fermi surface occur for the graph of the tetrakis square tiling, and these can be explicitly parameterized when the coupling coefficients are real. The irreducibility result applies to weighted graph Laplacians with positive weights.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.04197

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zbMATH Keywords

planar graphgraph LaplacianFermi surfacegraph operatorFloquet surfacereducible algebraic variety

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and linear algebra (matrices, eigenvalues, etc.) (05C50) Relationships between algebraic curves and physics (14H81) Discrete version of topics in analysis (39A12) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Difference operators (39A70) Partial difference equations (39A14)

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