On the spectrum of a random walk on the discrete Heisenberg group and the norm of Harper's operator

Journal of Geometry and Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 337-356

  Béguin, Cédric ^a   Valette, Alain ^a   Zuk, Andrzej ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Harper operator; Heisenberg group; Random walk

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031101158     PISSN: 03930440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0393-0440(96)00024-1     Document Type: Article

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