Quantum hall conductivity in a Landau type model with a realistic geometry II

Abstract We use a mathematical framework that we introduced in a previous paper to study geometrical and quantum mechanical aspects of a Hall system with finite size and general boundary conditions. Geometrical structures control possibly the integral or fractional quantization of the Hall conductivity depending on the value of NB /2π ( N is the number of charge carriers and B is the magnetic field). When NB /2π is irrational, we show that monovaluated wave functions can be constructed only on the graph of a free group with two generators. When NB /2π is rational, the relevant space becomes a punctured Riemann surface. We finally discuss our results from a phenomenological viewpoint.