@Article{Niikuni2015, author = "Niikuni, Hiroaki", title = "Decisiveness of the spectral gaps of periodic Schrödinger operators on the dumbbell-like metric graph", journal = "Opuscula Math.", year = "2015", volume = "35", number = "2", pages = "199--234", doi = "http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2015.35.2.199", url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2015.35.2.199", abstract = "In this paper, we consider periodic Schrödinger operators on the dumbbell-like metric graph, which is a periodic graph consisting of lines and rings. Let one line and two rings be in the basic period. We see the relationship between the structure of graph and the band-gap spectrum.", keywords = "quantum graph, spectral gap, band structure, Hill operator", issn = "1232-9274" }