“…in the two-dimensional case ( [9], [10]). In recent years an analogous asymptotic analysis of the point spectrum arising in spectral gaps of Schrödinger operators under perturbations has attracted considerable attention; starting from [1], Birman has developed a general framework to study this problem [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7]; see also [16]. More specifically, Sobolev [26] has studied the perturbed periodic one-dimensional Schrödinger operator, showing that for a wide range of power-decaying perturbations, the number of eigenvalues arising in a closed subinterval of a spectral gap of the unperturbed problem is asymptotically given by a quasi-semiclassical formula in which the quasimomentum of the periodic background problem takes the role of the ordinary momentum in the Weyl formula.…”