Uniform singular continuous spectrum for the period doubling Hamiltonian (Q5931579): Difference between revisions

Let \(S(a)= ab\), \(S(b)= aa\) be the period doubling substitution on the alphabet \(A= \{a,b\}\) and \(u= abaaabab\dots\) be the one-sided sequence which is invariant under the substitution process. Define the associated subshfit \(\Omega\) to be the set of all two-sided sequences which have all their finite subblocks occurring in \(u\). Choose some non-constant function \(f: A\to\mathbb{R}\) and define for \(\omega\in\Omega\), a discrete one-dimensional Schrödinger operator \(H_\omega\), acting in \(\ell^2(\mathbb{Z})\), by \[ (H_\omega\psi)(n)= \psi(n+ 1)+ \psi(n-1)+ f(\omega_n) \psi(n). \] The following theorem is proved: For every \(\omega\in \Omega\), the operator \(H_\omega\) has empty point spectrum.