Fermi isospectrality of discrete periodic Schr\"odinger operators with separable potentials on \mathbb{Z}^2

DOI10.1007/S00220-022-04575-8MaRDI QIDQ6407841arXivFDO

Publication date 14 August 2022

Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Semilinear elliptic equations with Laplacian, bi-Laplacian or poly-Laplacian (35J91) Discrete version of topics in analysis (39A12) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Isospectrality (58J53)

Abstract: Let

G a m m a = q_{1} m a t h b b Z o p l u s q_{2} m a t h b b Z

with

q_{1} i n m a t h b b Z_{+}

and

q_{2} i n m a t h b b Z_{+}

. Let

D e l t a + X

be the discrete periodic Schr"odinger operator on

m a t h b b Z^{2}

, where

D e l t a

is the discrete Laplacian and

X : m a t h b b Z^{2} o m a t h b b C

is

G a m m a

-periodic. In this paper, we develop tools from complex analysis to study the isospectrality of discrete periodic Schr"odinger operators. We prove that if two

G a m m a

-periodic potentials

X

and

Y

are Fermi isospectral and both

X = X_{1} o p l u s X_{2}

and

Y = Y_{1} o p l u s Y_{2}

are separable functions, then, up to a constant, one dimensional potentials

X_{j}

and

Y_{j}

are Floquet isospectral,

j = 1, 2

. This allows us to prove that for any non-constant separable real-valued

G a m m a

-periodic potential, the Fermi variety

F_{l a m b d a} (V) / m a t h b b Z^{2}

is irreducible for any

l a m b d a i n m a t h b b C

, which partially confirms a conjecture of Gieseker, Kn"{o}rrer and Trubowitz in the early 1990s.

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