Orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle with quasiperiodic Verblunsky coefficients have generic purely singular continuous spectrum (Q489873): Difference between revisions

The present paper is concerned with the spectrum of two-sided CMV operators with quasiperiodic Verblunsky coefficients. These operators are the unitary analogue of the discrete Schrödinger operator and have connections with orthogonal polynomials corresponding to probability measures on the unit circle. The main results in this paper, including the proofs, are completely motivated by [\textit{M. Boshernitzan} and \textit{D. Damanik}, Commun. Math. Phys. 283, No. 3, 647--662 (2008; Zbl 1159.35016)]. It is proved that for a minimal base topological system \((T, \Omega)\) with a certain property, it is possible to construct a dense \(G_\delta\) subset \({\mathcal F}\) of \(C(\Omega,{\mathbb D})\), where \({\mathbb D}=\{z\in {\mathbb C}: |z|<1\}\), such that for any \(f\in {\mathcal F}\), one has some residual set \(\Omega_f\subset \Omega\) so that for any \(\omega\in \Omega_f\), the corresponding sequence of two-sided Verblunsky coefficients is a Gordon sequence. In particular, as a corollary of the Gordon sequences, for a minimal translation \(T\) on the \(d\)-dimensional torus \(\Omega={\mathbb T}^d\) or the skew-shift on \(\Omega={\mathbb T}^2\), one has a dense \(G_\delta\) subset \({\mathcal F}\) of \(C(\Omega,{\mathbb D})\) such that the corresponding CMV operator has empty point spectrum and purely singular continuous spectrum.