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The authors derive an exact sum rule satisfied by the dispersion relations of the commensurable case of Harper's equation (1955). They use this result to derive a lower bound for the total bandwidth of the spectrum and to provide a stronger analytical justification for a result due to Thouless (1990) concerning the total bandwidth when the commensurability is a high order rational.
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