Identities and exponential bounds for transfer matrices

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/46/25/254004MaRDI QIDQ2841021zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Luca Guido Molinari

Publication date 24 July 2013

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.8001

zbMATH Keywords

banded matricesgeneral block-tridiagonal matricesJensen's formulalocalization of eigenstates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Determinants, permanents, traces, other special matrix functions (15A15) Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors (15A18) Value distribution of meromorphic functions of one complex variable, Nevanlinna theory (30D35) Difference operators (39A70) Jacobi (tridiagonal) operators (matrices) and generalizations (47B36) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)

Abstract: This paper is about analytic properties of single transfer matrices originating from general block-tridiagonal or banded matrices. Such matrices occur in various applications in physics and numerical analysis. The eigenvalues of the transfer matrix describe localization of eigenstates and are linked to the spectrum of the block tridiagonal matrix by a determinantal identity, If the block tridiagonal matrix is invertible, it is shown that half of the singular values of the transfer matrix have a lower bound exponentially large in the length of the chain, and the other half have an upper bound that is exponentially small. This is a consequence of a theorem by Demko, Moss and Smith on the decay of matrix elements of inverse of banded matrices.

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