On the location of spectral edges in \mathbb {Z}-periodic media

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/43/47/474022MaRDI QIDQ3065984zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pavel Exner, Brian Winn, Peter Kuchment

Publication date 7 January 2011

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.3001

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectral theory and eigenvalue problems for partial differential equations (35P99) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99) General theory of partial differential operators (47F05) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10)

Abstract: Periodic $2$nd order ordinary differential operators on $R$ are known to have the edges of their spectra to occur only at the spectra of periodic and antiperiodic boundary value problems. The multi-dimensional analog of this property is false, as was shown in a 2007 paper by some of the authors of this article. However, one sometimes encounters the claims that in the case of a single periodicity (i.e., with respect to the lattice $mathbbZ$), the $1D$ property still holds, and spectral edges occur at the periodic and anti-periodic spectra only. In this work we show that even in the simplest case of quantum graphs this is not true. It is shown that this is true if the graph consists of a $1D$ chain of finite graphs connected by single edges, while if the connections are formed by at least two edges, the spectral edges can already occur away from the periodic and anti-periodic spectra.

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