Fritz Gesztesy and Vadim Tkachenko
When is a non-self-adjoint Hill operator a spectral operator of scalar type?
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ABSTRACT.  We derive necessary and sufficient conditions for a one-dimensional periodic
Schr\"odinger (i.e., Hill) operator H=-d^2/dx^2+V in L^2(R) to be a spectral
operator of scalar type. The conditions demonstrate the remarkable
fact that the property of a Hill operator being a spectral operator is
independent of smoothness (or even analyticity) properties of the potential V.