Bethe-Sommerfeld conjecture in semiclassical settings

Abstract

Under certain assumptions (including $d\ge 2)$ we prove that the spectrum of a scalar operator in $\mathscr{L}^2(\mathbb{R}^d)$ \begin{equation*} A_\varepsilon (x,hD)= A^0(hD) + \varepsilon B(x,hD), \end{equation*} covers interval $(\tau-\epsilon,\tau+\epsilon)$, where $A^0$ is an elliptic operator and $B(x,hD)$ is a periodic perturbation, $\varepsilon=O(h^\varkappa)$, $\varkappa>0$. Further, we consider generalizations.