Download or read book Periodic Differential Operators written by B. Malcolm Brown and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Periodic differential operators have a rich mathematical theory as well as important physical applications. They have been the subject of intensive development for over a century and remain a fertile research area. This book lays out the theoretical foundations and then moves on to give a coherent account of more recent results, relating in particular to the eigenvalue and spectral theory of the Hill and Dirac equations. The book will be valuable to advanced students and academics both for general reference and as an introduction to active research topics.