On the Bethe-Sommerfeld conjecture for certain periodic Maxwell operators

DOI10.1016/J.JMAA.2010.10.067zbMATH Open1213.47055arXiv0910.2742OpenAlexW2082160070WikidataQ123196973 ScholiaQ123196973MaRDI QIDQ626183FDOQ626183

Authors: Mariya Vorobets 

Publication date: 22 February 2011

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Bethe-Sommerfeld conjecture states that the spectrum of the stationary Schrodinger operator with a periodic potential in dimensions higher than 1 has only finitely many gaps. After work done by many authors, it has been proven by now in full generality. The similar conjecture in presence of a periodic magnetic potential has been proven in dimension 2 only. Another case of a significant interest, due to its importance for the photonic crystal theory, is of a periodic Maxwell operator, where apparently no results of such kind are known. We establish here that in the case of a 2D photonic crystal, i.e. of the medium periodic in two variables and homogeneous in the third one, if the dielectric function is separable, the number of spectral gaps of the corresponding Maxwell operator is indeed finite. It is also shown that, as one would expect, when the medium is near to being homogeneous, there are no spectral gaps at all.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.2742

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zbMATH Keywords

Floquet theoryspectral gapBethe-Sommerfeld conjectureperiodic Maxwell operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Schrödinger operator, Schrödinger equation (35J10) Asymptotic distributions of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P20) Maxwell equations (35Q61) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Pseudodifferential operators (47G30)

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