TY - JOUR ID - Niikuni2015 LB - Niikuni2015 AU - Niikuni, Hiroaki TI - Decisiveness of the spectral gaps of periodic Schrödinger operators on the dumbbell-like metric graph ST - Decisiveness of the spectral gaps of periodic Schrödinger operators on the dumbbell-like metric graph JO - Opuscula Math. JA - Opuscula Math. JF - Opuscula Mathematica PY - 2015 VL - 35 IS - 2 SP - 199 EP - 234 DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2015.35.2.199 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2015.35.2.199 AB - 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. KW - quantum graph KW - spectral gap KW - band structure KW - Hill operator SN - 1232-9274 ER -