Bragg spectrum, K-theory and Gap Labelling of aperiodic solids

Abstract

The diffraction spectrum of an aperiodic solid is related to the group of eigenvalues of the dynamical system associated with the solid. Those eigenvalues with continuous eigenfunctions constitute the topological Bragg spectrum. We relate the topological Bragg spectrum to the topological invariants (Chern numbers) of the solid and to the gap-labelling group, which is the group of possible gap labels for the spectrum of a Schr\"odinger operator describing the electronic motion in the solid.