Weyl sums and the Lyapunov exponent for the skew-shift Schrödinger cocycle

DOI10.4171/JST/323zbMATH Open1476.37074arXiv1807.00233MaRDI QIDQ2043641FDOQ2043641

Marius Lemm, Rui Han, W. Schlag

Publication date: 3 August 2021

Published in: Journal of Spectral Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the one-dimensional discrete Schr"odinger operator with the skew-shift potential $$. This potential is long conjectured to behave like a random one, i.e., it is expected to produce Anderson localization for arbitrarily small coupling constants $lambda>0$. In this paper, we introduce a novel perturbative approach for studying the zero-energy Lyapunov exponent $L(lambda)$ at small $lambda$. Our main results establish that, to second order in perturbation theory, a natural upper bound on $L(lambda)$ is fully consistent with $L(lambda)$ being positive and satisfying the usual Figotin-Pastur type asymptotics $L(lambda)simClambd{a}^2$ as $lambdao0$. The analogous quantity behaves completely differently in the Almost-Mathieu model, whose zero-energy Lyapunov exponent vanishes for $lambda<1$. The main technical work consists in establishing good lower bounds on the exponential sums (quadratic Weyl sums) that appear in our perturbation series.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00233

zbMATH Keywords

Lyapunov exponentrandom dynamicsWeyl sumsskew-shiftSchrödinger cocycles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Particular ordinary differential operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.) (34L40) Functional analytic techniques in dynamical systems; zeta functions, (Ruelle-Frobenius) transfer operators, etc. (37C30) Random dynamical systems aspects of multiplicative ergodic theory, Lyapunov exponents (37H15)

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