Asymptotics for Fermi curves: small magnetic potential

Abstract

We consider complex Fermi curves of electric and magnetic periodic fields. These are analytic curves in C^2 that arise from the study of the eigenvalue problem for periodic Schroedinger operators. We characterize a certain class of these curves in the region of C^2 where at least one of the coordinates has "large" imaginary part. The new results in this work extend previous results in the absence of magnetic field to the case of "small" magnetic field. Our theorems can be used to show that generically these Fermi curves belong to a class of Riemann surfaces of infinite genus.