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We study Dirichlet Laplacian in a screw-shaped region, i.e. a straight twisted tube of a non-circular cross section. It is shown that a local perturbation which consists of slowing down the twisting in the mean gives rise to a non-empty discrete spectrum

One of the theorems of Bengt Stolt’s article “On the Diophantine Equation$u$^{2}−$Dv$^{2}=4$N$” is not quite correct in its entirety. A counter-example will be given to show this. A modification of the theorem which he was trying to prove will be given for certain special cases.

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We review several recent results concerning two-dimensional systems which exhibit a transport induced by a one-dimensional perturbation of a homogeneous magnetic field. The first concerns the local Iwatsuka model, where a charged particle interacts with a field which is homogeneous outside a finite strip and translationally invariant along it: we present two new sufficient conditions for absolute continuity of the spectrum and show that in most cases the number of open spectral gaps is finite. In the second model the perturbation is a periodic array of point obstacles. In this case the Landau levels remain to be infinitely degenerate eigenvalues, and between them the system has bands of absolutely continuous spectrum.