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20242026
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7 papers

math.AG2026

Reducibility and Diagonal Equality Strata for Finite Jacobi Pencils

Matthew Faust

We study reducibility of the characteristic polynomials of a class of finite Jacobi pencils. We classify the diagonal equality patterns for which generic connected couplings yield…

math.SP2026

Generic Irreducibility of Bloch Varieties for Periodic Graph Operators

Matthew Faust, Wencai Liu

We give a complete characterization of generic irreducibility for dispersion polynomials and Bloch varieties of periodic graph operators. More precisely, we prove that for a generi…

math.SP2026

A counterexample to Fermi isospectral rigidity for two dimensional discrete periodic Schrödinger operators

Taylor Brysiewicz, Matthew Faust, Wencai Liu

Using numerical certification, we prove the existence of a nontrivial real-valued two dimensional periodic potential whose associated discrete Schrödinger operator is Fermi isospec…

math.SP2025

Absence of flat bands for discrete periodic graph operators with generic potentials

Matthew Faust, Ilya Kachkovskiy

We show that Schrödinger-type operators on discrete connected periodic graphs do not have flat bands for generic potentials.

math.SP2025

Rare Flat Bands for Periodic Graph Operators

Matthew Faust, Wencai Liu

As a corollary of our main results, we prove that for any connected -periodic graph, when edge weights and potentials are treated as variables, the corresponding peri…

math.SP2025

Extrema of spectral band functions of two dimensional discrete periodic Schrödinger operators

Matthew Faust, Wencai Liu, Ethan Luo

We use Bézout's theorem and Bernstein-Khovanskii-Kushnirenko theorem to analyze the level sets of the extrema of the spectral band functions of discrete periodic Schrödinger operat…

math.SP2024

Floquet Isospectrality of the Zero Potential for Discrete Periodic Schrödinger Operators

Matthew Faust, Wencai Liu, Rodrigo Matos +5

Let , with for each , and denote by the discrete Laplacian…