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.
References
Primary source
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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