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Name:
Miloslav Znojil
Reviewer number:
9689
Email:
znojil@ujf.cas.cz
Item's zbl-Number:
DE 018 217 653
Author(s):
Shterenberg, R. G.:
Shorttitle:
Absolute continuity of the spectrum of two-dimensional periodic Schroedinger operators
Source:
St. Petersbg. Math. J. 13, No. 4, 659-683 (2002); transl. from Algebra Anal. 13, No. 4, 196-228 (2001)
Classification:
47A40Scattering theory
Primary Classification:
35J10Schroedinger operator
Secondary Classification:
35P25Scattering theory for PDE
Keywords:
Schroedinger operator in two dimensions; density-like periodic potential; coordinate-dependent mass-term; absolutely continous spectrum;
Review:


The general coordinate-dependent two-by-two metric g(x) is admitted
in the kinetic energy of the Schroedinger operator in two dimensions
with periodic boundary conditions for the the density-like class of
potentials. The absolute continuity of the spectrum is proved. The
paper is a continuation of the author's study of a similar problem in
2000 (paper cited as [Sh]). Now, the so called subordination
condition imposed upon the class of potentials (cf. eq. (0.11)) is
``maximally" weakened (basically, to eqs. (1.8) and (1.9) which just
ensure the boundedness from below of the form m of the Schroedinger
operator M) at a cost of the absence of the magnetic field (to be
incorporated in a subsequent paper). The method which worked in the
pioneering 1973 paper [T] (by L. Thomas, on the scattering from
impurities in a crystal), based on a complexification of
quasi-momenta (their large imaginary values prove most relevant) is
still in use here. The difficulties with the metric g(x) (which is,
by the way, constrained just by a single condition (0.13)) are being
avoided in two steps, via a scalar case and starting from the current
trivial g=1.

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