Differential operators on graphs and photonic crystals Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Studying classical wave propagation in periodic high contrast photonic and acoustic media naturally leads to the following spectral problem: -u = u, where (x) (the dielectric constant) is a periodic function that assumes a large value near a periodic graph in 2 and is equal to 1 otherwise. High contrast regimes lead to appearence of pseudo-differential operators of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann type on graphs. The paper contains a technique of approximating these pseudo-differential spectral problems by much simpler differential ones that can sometimes be resolved analytically. Numerical experiments show amazing agreement between the spectra of the pseudo-differential and differential problems.

published proceedings

  • ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS

altmetric score

  • 3

author list (cited authors)

  • Kuchment, P., & Kunyansky, L.

citation count

  • 32

complete list of authors

  • Kuchment, P||Kunyansky, L

publication date

  • April 2002