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Resonance Raman Spectroscopy of Extreme Nanowires and Other 1D Systems
Published on: April 28, 2016
The AGM of Gauss, Ramanujan's corresponding theory, and spectral bounds of self-adjoint operators
Markus Faulhuber1, Anupam Gumber1, Irina Shafkulovska1
1Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
Abstract:
We study the spectral bounds of self-adjoint operators on the Hilbert space of square-integrable functions, arising from the representation theory of the Heisenberg group. Interestingly, starting either with the von Neumann lattice or the hexagonal lattice of density 2, the spectral bounds obey well-known arithmetic-geometric mean iterations. This follows from connections to Jacobi theta functions and Ramanujan's corresponding theories. As a consequence, we rediscover that these operators resemble the identity operator as the density of the lattice grows. We also prove that the conjectural value of Landau's constant is obtained as half the cubic arithmetic-geometric mean of and 1, which we believe to be a new result.
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