Magnetic interpretation of the nodal defect on graphs

DOI10.2140/APDE.2013.6.1235MaRDI QIDQ394166zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yves Colin de Verdière

Publication date 24 January 2014

Published in Analysis \& PDE (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.1110

zbMATH Keywords

fieldsMorse indexCourant nodal theoremHill's operatoroperator on graphsSchrödinger operators with magnetic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of graph theory (05C90) Schrödinger operator, Schrödinger equation (35J10) General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) PDEs on graphs and networks (ramified or polygonal spaces) (35R02)

Abstract: In this note, we present a natural proof of a recent and surprising result of Gregory Berkolaiko (arXiv 1110.5373) interpreting the "Courant nodal defect" of a Schr"odinger operator on a finite graph as a Morse index associated to the deformations of the operator by switching on a magnetic field. This proof is inspired by a nice paper of Miroslav Fiedler published in 1975.

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