Abstract:
In [1], it was shown that the one-dimensional finite-gap Schrödinger operator can be extended to a second-order difference operator depending on a small parameter and commuting with some difference operator of order
$2g+1.$ In this case, if the small parameter tends to zero, then the second-order difference operator becomes a Schrödinger operator. In this paper, we construct such an extension for the finite-gap Treibich–Verdier operator.
In this paper, we continue to study the relationship between one-dimensional finite-gap Schrödinger operators and their difference analogues. In [1], it was shown that the one-dimensional finite-gap Schrödinger operator
In general, the potential of a finite-gap Schrödinger operator $u(x)$ is expressed in terms of the theta function of the Jacobian variety of a hyperelliptic spectral curve [2], but in the special cases when the hyperelliptic curve covers an elliptic curve, the theta functional formula for $u(x)$ can be reduced to a formula expressing the potential $u(x)$ in terms of elliptic functions. A remarkable example of such an operator is the Treibich–Verdier operator.
Here, $\Lambda=\mathbb{C}/\{2\omega_1{\mathbb Z} +2\omega_2{\mathbb Z}\}$ is the lattice of periods of the Weierstrass elliptic function $\wp(x)$ and $\omega_0=0$, $\omega_3 = \omega_1 + \omega_2$. The Treibich–Verdier operator has been studied in many papers, for example, in [3]–[9]. The main result of the present paper is as follows.
Consider the function $A(x,\varepsilon)$ defined by
$$
\begin{equation}
A_j(x,\varepsilon) =\prod_{k=1}^{g_j}\biggl(1+\frac{\zeta(x-\omega_j-2 k \varepsilon)-\zeta(x-\omega_j+2 k \varepsilon)}{\zeta(\varepsilon)+\zeta((4 k-1) \varepsilon)} \biggr)
\end{equation}
\tag{6}
$$
for even $s_j = 2 g_j$. Here, $a(\varepsilon)$ is an arbitrary meromorphic function, $\zeta(x)$ is the Weierstrass elliptic function, $\zeta'(x)=-\wp(x)$. The following result holds.
In § 2, we recall some results on one-dimensional finite-gap Schrödinger operators. In § 3, we recall some results on commuting difference operators of rank one. In § 4, we give a proof of Theorem 1.
§ 2. Finite-gap Schrödinger operators
In [11], [12], it was proved that a one-dimensional real smooth periodic Schrödinger operator $L_2$ is finite-gap if and only if $L_2$ commutes with some operator of the form (2). Now, a finite-gap operator is often understood to be an operator $L_2$ that satisfies the condition $[L_2,L_{2g+1}]=0$. The theory of one-dimensional finite-gap Schrödinger operators is closely related to that of finite-gap (algebraic-geometric) solutions of the Korteweg–de Vries equation (see [2], [11]–[13]).
The common eigenfunction of the operators $L_2$ and $L_{2g+1}$ is the Baker–Akhiezer function $\psi$. We have
$$
\begin{equation*}
L_2 \psi = z \psi, \qquad L_{2g+1} \psi= w \psi.
\end{equation*}
\notag
$$
The point $P=(z,w)$ lies on the spectral curve $\Gamma$ given by
where $\psi=\psi(x,P)$. The function $\psi$ has an essential singularity at the infinite point of the spectral curve $\Gamma$. The potential of the Schrödinger operator has the form (see [2])
Among the finite-gap Schrödinger operators one can single out operators with elliptic (doubly periodic) potentials. Examples of such operators are, as already mentioned, the Lamé operator and the Treibich–Verdier operator. There is a criterion for a potential to be finite-gap (Theorem 1.1 in [14]). This criterion was reformulated in [15] as follows.
Theorem 2. The Schrödinger operator $\partial^2_x+u(x)$ with an elliptic potential $u(x)$ is finite-gap if and only if the Laurent decomposition of $u(x)$ near each pole $x_0 \in \mathbb{C}$ has the form
was introduced in [16], where $T$ is the shift operator, $Tf(n)=f(n+1)$, $f\colon \mathbb{Z} \to \mathbb{C}$. Note that $T$ appears in $\widehat{L}_s$ only with positive powers, whereas $T$ can appear in the commuting operators from [17]–[19] with both positive and negative powers. These commutative rings are reconstructed from the following spectral data
$$
\begin{equation*}
S=\{\Gamma, \gamma_1,\dots,\gamma_g, q, k^{-1}, P_n\},
\end{equation*}
\notag
$$
where $\Gamma$ is a Riemann surface of genus $g$, $\gamma=\gamma_1+\cdots+\gamma_g$ is a non-special divisor on $\Gamma$, $q\in \Gamma$ is a marked point, $k^{-1}$ is a local parameter near $q$, $P_n\in\Gamma$, $ n \in \mathbb Z$ is a set of points in general position. The common eigenfunction of the operators is the Baker–Akhiezer function $\psi_n(P)$, $P\in\Gamma$, which has the following properties.
1. The function $\psi_n(P)$ is meromorphic on $\Gamma$ with a divisor of zeros and poles of the form
For any meromorphic function $g(P)$ on $\Gamma$ with a unique pole of order $s$ at $q$ with decomposition $g(P)=k^s+O(k^{s-1})$, there is a unique operator of the form (13) such that
commuting with some operator $\widehat{L}_{2g+1}$, and suppose that the spectral curve of the pair $\widehat{L}_2,\widehat{L}_{2g+1}$ is a hyperelliptic curve of the form (9). Then
If $S_n$ obeys equation (15), then $S_n$ automatically satisfies equation (14) for some polynomial $F_g(z)$. Equation (14) is equivalent to the commutation condition for $\widehat{L}_2$ and $\widehat{L}_{2g+1}$. Particular solutions of equations (14), (15) lead to the following explicit examples of commuting operators of order 2 and $2g+1$.
commutes with some operator $\widehat{L}_{2g+1}$ of order $2g+1$.
The extension of discrete operators $\widehat{L}_2$, $\widehat{L}_{2g+1}$ to commuting difference operators of the form (3), (4) with a spectral curve of the form (9) was studied in [1]. In the case of operator (3), the decomposition takes place
We will need an explicit form of the poles of the function $\mathcal{R}$ with respect to $x$.
Lemma 2. The function $\mathcal{R}(x,\varepsilon,z)$ is a $\Lambda$-periodic meromorphic function with respect to $x$ with simple poles (modulo $\Lambda$), which can only be at the points
Proof. The double periodicity of $\mathcal{R}(x,\varepsilon,z)$ follows from the double periodicity of $A(x,\varepsilon)$ and $S(x,\varepsilon,z),$ and the lattice of periods coincides with the lattice $\Lambda = \{2\omega_1 \mathbb{Z}+2\omega_2 \mathbb{Z}\}$. From Lemma 1 it follows that if $\mathcal{R}(x,\varepsilon,z)$ has a pole at the point $x=x_{0}$, then there is also a pole at the point $x=-x_{0}$, and
We claim that $\mathcal{R}_j(x,\varepsilon,z)$ has no second-order poles. A second-order pole of the function $\mathcal{R}_j(x,\varepsilon,z)$ can only arise in terms of the form
Notice that the first factor in (24) has a first-order pole at $x=\omega_j-\varepsilon,$ but the second factor does not have a pole at this point, since the terms in the second factor responsible for this pole are canceled,
A similar analysis shows that (25) has no pole at $x=\omega_j+\varepsilon$. Thus, a second-order pole of $\mathcal{R}_j(x,\varepsilon,z)$ can only arise at the point $x=\omega_j$. The second-order pole in (24) at $x=\omega_j$ is controlled by the term
Therefore, $\mathcal{R}_j(x,\varepsilon,z)$ has no second-order poles.
Poles of the form (22) are present at the first term $\mathcal{R}_j(x,\varepsilon,z),$ as well as at (24) and (25). Further, the second factor in (24) has a first-order pole at $x=\omega_j-(s_j+ 1)\varepsilon$, which is not in the list (22). However, note that at this point the first factor in (24) vanishes. Hence $\mathcal{R}_j(x,\varepsilon,z)$ has no pole at $x=\omega_j-(s_j+1)\varepsilon$. Similarly, $\mathcal{R}_j(x,\varepsilon,z)$ has no pole at the point $x=\omega_j+(s_j+1)\varepsilon$.
Hence the function $\mathcal{R}(x,\varepsilon,z)$ can have only simple poles at points (22). This proves Lemma 2.
By Lemma 1 and $\Lambda$-periodicity of $\mathcal{R}(x,\varepsilon,z)$,
where $k =1,\dots,s_j$, $0\leqslant j\leqslant 3$.
The residues of the function $\mathcal{R}_j(x,\varepsilon,z)$ at the points $ \omega_j+\varepsilon, \omega_j+2\varepsilon, \dots, \omega_j+s_j\varepsilon$ have the form
(a similar analysis was given in [10] for the Lamé operator). This implies (8). Theorem 1 is proved.
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Citation:
G. S. Mauleshova, A. E. Mironov, “Difference analogue of the Treibich–Verdier operator”, Izv. Math., 90:1 (2026), 224–237