Texas A&M University, Department of Mathemtics, 317 Milner Hall, 24th of September 2003, 2:00-4:00

Groups and Dynamics Seminar

(joint session with Mathematical Physics and Harmonic Analysis Seminar)


Spectra of graph operators

Peter Kuchment of Texas A&M University

Relating spectra of graph operators (both in discrete and quantum versions) to the geometry of the graph is a hard task. However, even some "simple" basic questions do not seem to be settled down yet for the case of infinite graphs. The talk purposes to address some of those questions. I hope to touch upon problems of self-adjointness, growth of generalized eigenfunctions, Shnoll's type theorems, spectral gaps, and point spectrum.