Resonance pockets of Hill's equations with two-step potentials

SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 651-664

  Gan, Shaobo ^a,b   Zhang, Meirong ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Characteristic value; Hill's equation; Resonance pocket; Rotation number

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034353694     PISSN: 00361410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036141099356842     Document Type: Article

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