Lipschitz Continuity of Spectra of Pseudodifferential Operators in a Weighted Sjöstrand Class and Gabor Frame Bounds

We study one-parameter families of pseudodifferential operators whose Weyl symbols are obtained by dilation and a smooth deformation of a symbol in a weighted Sjöstrand class. We show that their spectral edges are Lipschitz continuous functions of the dilation or deformation parameter. Suitably local estimates hold also for the edges of every spectral gap. These statements extend Bellissard’s seminal results on the Lipschitz continuity of spectral edges for families of operators with periodic symbols to a large class of symbols with only mild regularity assumptions. The abstract results are used to prove that the frame bounds of a family of Gabor systems $\mathcal{G}(g,\alpha \mathrm{\Lambda })$, where $\mathrm{\Lambda }$ is a set of non-uniform time-frequency shifts, $\alpha >0$, and $g\in M_2^1({\mathbb{R}}^d)$, are Lipschitz continuous functions in $\alpha$. This settles a question about the precise blow-up rate of the condition number of Gabor frames near the critical density.