Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-1-2020

Abstract

We prove that the Fermi surface of a connected doubly periodic self-adjoint discrete graph operator is irreducible at all but finitely many energies provided that the graph (1) can be drawn in the plane without crossing edges, (2) has positive coupling coefficients, (3) has two vertices per period. If “positive” is relaxed to “complex,” the only cases of reducible Fermi surface occur for the graph of the tetrakis square tiling, and these can be explicitly parameterized when the coupling coefficients are real. The irreducibility result applies to weighted graph Laplacians with positive weights.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Letters in Mathematical Physics

First Page

2543

Last Page

2572

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