The Spectrum of Magnetic Schrödinger Operators on a Graph with Periodic Structure

Journal of Functional Analysis

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 456-480

  Higuchi, Yusuke ^a   Shirai, Tomoyuki ^b  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abelian covering graph; Discrete magnetic Laplacian; Discrete spectral geometry; Phase transition; Twisted operator

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007543801     PISSN: 00221236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jfan.1999.3478     Document Type: Article

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