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We investigate quantum graphs with infinitely many vertices and edges without the common restriction on the geometry of the underlying metric graph that there is a positive lower bound on the lengths of its edges. Our central result is a close connection between spectral properties of a quantum graph and the corresponding properties of a certain weighted discrete Laplacian on the underlying discrete graph. Using this connection together with spectral theory of (unbounded) discrete Laplacians on infinite graphs, we prove a number of new results on spectral properties of quantum graphs. Namely, we prove several self-adjointness results including a Gaffney-type theorem. We investigate the problem of lower semiboundedness, prove several spectral estimates (bounds for the bottom of spectra and essential spectra of quantum graphs, CLR-type estimates) and study spectral types.
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Communicated by Jan Derezinski.
Dedicated to the memory of M. Z. Solomyak (16.05.1931–31.07.2016).
Research supported by the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) under Grant No. 17-01706S and the European Union within the Project CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000778 (P.E.), by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under Grant No. P28807 (A.K.), by the “RUDN University Program 5-100” (M.M.) and by the European Research Council (ERC) under Grant No. AdG 267802 “AnaMultiScale” (H.N.).
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Exner, P., Kostenko, A., Malamud, M. et al. Spectral Theory of Infinite Quantum Graphs. Ann. Henri Poincaré 19, 3457–3510 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-018-0728-9
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