Isospectral Mathieu-Hill operators

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Abstract: In this paper we prove that the spectrum of the Mathieu-Hill Operators with potentials ae^{-i2{pi}x}+be^{i2{pi}x} and ce^{-i2{pi}x}+de^{i2{pi}x} are the same if and only if ab=cd, where a,b,c and d are complex numbers. This result implies some corollaries about the extension of Harrell-Avron-Simon formula. Moreover, we find explicit formulas for the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the t-periodic boundary value problem for the Hill operator with Gasymov's potential.


Let \(H(a,b)\) be the Hill operator \(-y+qy\) in \(L^2(-\infty ,\infty )\), where the potential is of the form \[ q(x)=ae^{-i2\pi x}+be^{i2\pi x} \] with complex numbers \(a\) and \(b\). The main result of this paper is that the spectrum of \(H(a,b)\) only depends on the product of \(a\) and \(b\). As an immediate consequence, the author extends the Harrell-Avron-Simon formula on spectral gaps, see ([\textit{E. M. Harrell II}, Contributions to analysis and geometry, Suppl. Am. J. Math., 139--150 (1981; Zbl 0544.34014)] and [\textit{J.{} Avron} and \textit{B.{} Simon}, Commun. Math. Phys. 82, 101--120 (1981; Zbl 0484.35069)]), to the case \(a\neq b\). Using the fact that \(\sigma (H(a,b))\) is the union of \(\sigma (H_t(a,b))\) for \(t\in (-\pi ,\pi ]\), where \(H_t(a,b)\) is the differential operator on \([0,1]\) with boundary conditions \(y(1)=e^{it}y(0)\), \(y'(1)=e^{it}y'(0)\), it is shown that \(ab\) can be recovered from any subsequence of eigenvalues of \(H_t(a,b)\) for any \(t\in (-\pi ,\pi ]\).











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