High-frequency spectral asymptotics and homogenization for quasiperiodic operators

Abstract

We study the spectral asymptotics of elliptic operators with quasiperiodic coefficients by exploiting projections from higher-dimensional periodic functions. Using the framework of two-scale convergence adapted to cut-and-project quasiperiodic structures we establish that, in the low-frequency (homogenization) regime, the spectrum converges to that of a homogenized operator with effective coefficients determined by a cell problem on the higher-dimensional torus. In the high-frequency regime, we introduce a rescaling approach that transforms the problem to an expanding domain with asymptotically frozen coefficients. In the critical scaling, the rescaled spectrum converges to the union of the Bloch spectra arising from the quasiperiodic bulk and a boundary layer spectrum consisting of eigenfunctions concentrated near the boundary of the macroscopic domain. This boundary spectrum can be characterised as a subset of the spectrum of a family of half-space operators with frozen macroscopic coefficients. For any non-critical scaling, the rescaled spectrum fills the positive real line.