On the structure of spectra of periodic elliptic operators

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 354, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 537-569

  Kuchment, Peter ^a   Levendorskiî, Sergei ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolutely continuous spectrum; Elliptic operator; Magnetic and electric potentials; Periodic operator; Schr dinger operator

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036035440     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-01-02878-1     Document Type: Article

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