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Gaps in the Spectrum of the Laplacian in a Strip with Periodic Delta Interaction

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We consider the Laplace operator in an infinite planar strip with a periodic delta interaction. The width of the strip is fixed and for simplicity is chosen equal to π. The delta interaction is introduced on a periodic system of curves. Each curve consists of a finite number of segments, each having smoothness C1. The curves are supposed to be strictly internal and do not intersect the boundaries of the strip. The period of their location is 2επ, where ε is a sufficiently small number. The function describing the delta interaction is also periodic on the system of curves and is assumed to be bounded and measurable. The main result is the following fact. If ε ≤ ε0, where ε0 is a certain explicitly calculated number and the norm of the function describing the delta interaction is smaller than some explicit constant, then the lower part of the spectrum of the operator has no internal gaps. The lower part is understood as the band of the spectrum until some point, which is explicitly calculated in terms of the parameter ε as a rather simple function. This result can be considered as a first step to the proof of the strong Bethe-Sommerfeld conjecture on the complete absence of gaps in the spectrum of an operator for a sufficiently small period of location of delta interactions.

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This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 18-01-00046).

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  1. Institute of Mathematics with Computing Center, Ufa Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, 450008, Russia

    D. I. Borisov

  2. Bashkir State Pedagogical University, Ufa, 450000, Russia

    D. I. Borisov

  3. University of Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové, 50003, Czech Republic

    D. I. Borisov

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Russian Text © The Author(s), 2018, published in Trudy Instituta Matematiki i Mekhaniki UrO RAN, 2018, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 46–53.

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Borisov, D.I. Gaps in the Spectrum of the Laplacian in a Strip with Periodic Delta Interaction. Proc. Steklov Inst. Math. 305 (Suppl 1), S16–S23 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0081543819040047

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