Surgery of Graphs: M-Function and Spectral Gap
P. Kurasov
Dept. of Mathematics, Stockholm Univ., 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
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We discuss behaviour of the spectral gap for quantum graphs when two metric graphs are glued together. It appears that precise answer to this question can be given using a natural generalisation of the Titchmarsh-Weyl M-functions.

DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.132.1666
topics: quantum graphs, spectral theory