Formulas of Szeg\H{o} type for the periodic Schr\"odinger operator

Abstract

We prove asymptotic formulas of Szeg\H{o} type for the periodic Schr\"odinger operator $H=-\frac{d^2}{dx^2}+V$ in dimension one. Admitting fairly general functions $h$ with $h(0)=0$, we study the trace of the operator $h(\chi_{(-\alpha,\alpha)}\chi_{(-\infty,\mu)}(H)\chi_{(-\alpha,\alpha)})$ and link its subleading behaviour as $\alpha\to\infty$ to the position of the spectral parameter $\mu$ relative to the spectrum of $H$.