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We study the behavior of the limit of the spectrum of a non self-adjoint Sturm-Liouville operator with analytic potential as the semi-classical parameter $h\to 0$. We get a good description of the spectrum and limit spectrum near $\infty$.…

We summarize (and comment on) the research program carried out in (CMP 319, 501 (2013)), (CMP 338, 347 (2015)), (CMP 344, 959 (2016), (LMP 106, 787 (2016)). This program is devoted to the characterization of the absolutely continuous…

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We consider a periodic self-adjoint pseudo-differential operator $H=(-\Delta)^m+B$, $m>0$, in $\R^d$ which satisfies the following conditions: (i) the symbol of $B$ is smooth in $\bx$, and (ii) the perturbation $B$ has order less than $2m$.…

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I will show that operator of analytic (harmonic) continuation on a lattice graph has a positive spectrum. I use a theorem about positivity of eigenvalues of totally positive matrices. I conjecture that by approximation the similar result…

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We prove that the spectrum of the discrete Schr\"odinger operator on $\ell^2(Z^2)$, $(\psi_{n,m})\mapsto -(\psi_{n+1,m} +\psi_{n-1,m} +\psi_{n,m+1} +\psi_{n,m-1})+V_n\psi_{n,m}$ is absolutely continuous.