Genericity of periodic Hamiltonians
Genericity of periodic Hamiltonians
Fix a finite spectral interval . A periodic Hamiltonian is called generic on if, for every band edge occurring inside , the band functions attain at finitely many points of the Brillouin zone , and near each such point either there is a unique band function with value at the point and a non-degenerate extremum there, or exactly two band functions and meet there, satisfy away from the meeting point, and the function
has a non-degenerate maximum at the meeting point. Here non-degenerate means that the Hessian is non-degenerate. Genericity conjecture. Generic periodic Hamiltonians form a set of second Baire category in a suitable class of periodic operators. The conjecture concerns the prevalence of the stated local generic band-edge behavior among periodic operators; the source gives no resolution or precise choice of the suitable class.
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J. M. Harrison, P. Kuchment, A. Sobolev and B. Winn, “On occurrence of spectral edges for periodic operators inside the Brillouin zone”, arXiv:math-ph/0702035 (2007).
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