On occurrence of spectral edges for periodic operators inside the Brillouin zone

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/40/27/011zbMath1141.82340arXivmath-ph/0702035MaRDI QIDQ3593329

Alexander V. Sobolev, Brian Winn, Jon M. Harrison, Peter A. Kuchment

Publication date: 20 July 2007

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0702035

zbMATH Keywords

Laplace-Beltrami operators; Brillouin zone; Maxwell operators; Neumann waveguides; schrödinger operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35P99: Spectral theory and eigenvalue problems for partial differential equations

58J50: Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds

82D25: Statistical mechanics of crystals

47F05: General theory of partial differential operators

81Q10: Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis

82D20: Statistical mechanics of solids

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