Arithmetic properties of eigenvalues of generalized Harper operators on graphs

DOI10.1007/S00220-005-1489-0zbMATH Open1107.47020arXivmath/0311315OpenAlexW3100715265MaRDI QIDQ852386FDOQ852386

Authors: Varghese Mathai, Józef Dodziuk, Stuart G. Yates 

Publication date: 29 November 2006

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $Qbar$ denote the field of complex algebraic numbers. A discrete group $G$ is said to have the $sigma$-multiplier algebraic eigenvalue property, if for every matrix $A$ with entries in the twisted group ring over the complex algebraic numbers $M_d(Qbar(G,sigma))$, regarded as an operator on $l^2(G{)}^d$, the eigenvalues of $A$ are algebraic numbers, where $sigma$ is an algebraic multiplier. Such operators include the Harper operator and the discrete magnetic Laplacian that occur in solid state physics. We prove that any finitely generated amenable, free or surface group has this property for any algebraic multiplier $sigma$. In the special case when $sigma$ is rational ($sigm{a}^n$=1 for some positive integer $n$) this property holds for a larger class of groups, containing free groups and amenable groups, and closed under taking directed unions and extensions with amenable quotients. Included in the paper are proofs of other spectral properties of such operators.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0311315

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zbMATH Keywords

discrete Laplaciantwisted group algebraintegrated density of statesHarper operatorself-adjoint matrix operatorsvon Neumann spectral density function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Linear difference operators (47B39)

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