Weak separability and partial Fermi isospectrality of discrete periodic Schr\"odinger operators

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the discrete periodic Schr\"odinger operators $\Delta+V$ on $\Z^d$, where $V$ is $\Gamma$-periodic with $\Gamma=q_1 \mathbb{Z}\oplus q_2\mathbb{Z}\oplus\cdots\oplus q_d\mathbb{Z}$ and positive integers $q_j$, $j=1,2,\cdots,d,$ are pairwise coprime. We introduce the notions of generalized partial Fermi isospectrality and weak separability, and prove that two generalized partially Fermi isospectral potentials have the same weak separability. As a direct application, we can prove that two potentials have the same $(d_1,d_2,\cdots,d_r)$-separability by assuming that they are generalized partially Fermi isospectral, instead of the Fermi isospectrality or Floquet isospectrality. Besides, we prove that each couples of components of the generalized Fermi isospectral potentials are Floquet isospectral in some sense.