Almost eigenvalues and eigenvectors of almost Mathieu operators

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-69637-5_5MaRDI QIDQ5020129zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas Strohmer, Timothy Wertz

Publication date 4 January 2022

Published in Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.06001

zbMATH Keywords

discrete Schrödinger operatorHermite functionsMathieu operatorperturbation theorySturm sequencesTaylor expansionstime-frequency analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete version of topics in analysis (39A12) Difference operators (39A70) Perturbation theory of linear operators (47A55) Eigenvalue problems for linear operators (47A75) Linear difference operators (47B39)

Abstract: The almost Mathieu operator is the discrete Schr"odinger operator $$ on $el{l}^2(mathbbZ)$ defined via $$. We derive explicit estimates for the eigenvalues at the edge of the spectrum of the finite-dimensional almost Mathieu operator. We furthermore show that the (properly rescaled) $m$-th Hermite function $ph{i}_m$ is an approximate eigenvector of this operator, and that it satisfies the same properties that characterize the true eigenvector associated to the $m$-th largest eigenvalue. Moreover, a properly translated and modulated version of $ph{i}_m$ is also an approximate eigenvector of this operator, and it satisfies the properties that characterize the true eigenvector associated to the $m$-th largest (in modulus) negative eigenvalue. The results hold at the edge of the spectrum, for any choice of $heta$ and under very mild conditions on $alpha$ and $$. We also give precise estimates for the size of the "edge", and extend some of our results to the infinite dimensional case. The ingredients for our proofs comprise Taylor expansions, basic time-frequency analysis, Sturm sequences, and perturbation theory for eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Numerical simulations demonstrate the tight fit of the theoretical estimates.

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