On the spectrum of a two-dimensional periodic operator with a small localized perturbation

We consider a two-dimensional periodic self-adjoint second-order differential operator on the plane with a small localized perturbation. The perturbation is given by an arbitrary (not necessarily symmetric) operator. It is localized in the sense that it acts on a pair of weighted Sobolev spaces and sends functions of sufficiently rapid growth to functions of sufficiently rapid decay. By studying the spectrum of the perturbed operator, we establish that the essential spectrum is stable, the residual spectrum is absent, and the set of isolated eigenvalues is discrete. We obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of new eigenvalues arising from the ends of lacunae in the essential spectrum. In the case when such eigenvalues exist, we construct the first terms of asymptotic expansions of these eigenvalues and the corresponding eigenfunctions.