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We consider the Dirichlet Laplacian in a straight planar strip perturbed by a bounded periodic symmetric operator. We prove the classical Bethe-Sommerfeld conjecture for this operator, namely, that this operator has finitely many gaps in…
I study the spectral behavior of the covariant Laplacian $\Delta_A = d_A^* d_A$ associated with smooth $\mathrm{SU}(2)$ connections on $\mathbb{R}^3$. The main result establishes a sharp threshold for the pointwise decay of curvature…
We prove some estimates on the spectrum of the Laplacian of the total space of a Riemannian submersion in terms of the spectrum of the Laplacian of the base and the geometry of the fibers. When the fibers of the submersions are compact and…
We consider the Laplacian in a curved two-dimensional strip of constant width squeezed between two curves, subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions on one of the curves and variable Robin boundary conditions on the other. We prove that, for…
Spectrum of the volume integral operator of the three-dimensional electromagnetic scattering is analyzed. The operator has both continuous essential spectrum, which dominates at lower frequencies, and discrete eigenvalues, which spread out…
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The spectral gap of the graph Laplacian with Dirichlet boundary conditions is computed for the graphs of several communication networks at the IP-layer, which are subgraphs of the much larger global IP-layer network. We show that the…
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We take an open regular domain $\Omega$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with $n\ge 3$. We introduce a pair of positive parameters $\epsilon_1$ and $\epsilon_2$ and we set $\epsilon\equiv(\epsilon_1,\epsilon_2)$. Then we define the perforated domain…
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