Fine properties of the integrated density of states and a quantitative separation property of the Dirichlet eigenvalues (Q1024664)

This paper considers the one-dimensional discrete Schrödinger operator \[ [H(x,\omega)\phi](n)\equiv-\phi(n-1)-\phi(n+1)+V(x+n\omega)\phi(n)=E \phi(n), \] with \(n\in\mathbb Z\), \(x,\omega\in[0,1]\) and with a real analytic potential \(V(\cdot)\). If one assumes 1) that \(V\) is close to a trigonometric polynomial of degree \(k_0\) 2) that the Lyapunov exponent is positive (i.e. that the norm of the matrix \(M_n\), such that \[ \{ \phi(n+1),\phi(n)\}=M_n \{\phi(1),\phi(0)\}, \] grows exponentially with \(n\)) 3) that \(\omega\) verifies a certain Diophantine condition spelled out in Section 3 then it is proved (among other results) that A) the integrated density of states \(\mathcal N\) is Hölder continuous with exponent \(1/(2k_0)-\kappa\) for every \(\kappa>0\) B) \(\mathcal N\) is absolutely continuous for every \(\omega\) C) \(\mathcal N\) is Lipshitz at ``most'' energies (cf. Theorem 1.2 for the precise statement). The proofs proceed via finite-volume bounds, i.e. bounds on the number of eigenvalues in a small interval (of size \(\gg 1/N\) and \(\ll 1\) when \(N\to\infty\)) for the eigenvalue problem with Dirichlet boundary conditions on \(\{1,\ldots,N\}\).