A sufficient condition for the continuity of the spectrum of a discrete Schrödinger operator (Q1091592)

One considers the bounded selfadjoint operator \(H_ q\) in \(\ell^ 2(Z^ d)\) \[ (H_ qy)(m)=-\sum_{s\in Z^ d,| s| =1}y(m+s)+q(m)y(m),\quad m\in Z^ d \] where q(m) is a real bounded function on \(Z^ d\), \(s=(s_ 1,...,s_ d)\in Z^ d\), \(| s| =\sum^{d}_{i-1}| s_ i|\). Let \(\sigma_ p(H_ q)\) be the pointwise spectrum of the operator. The aim of the article is to prove that if the potential q is uniformly approximated by means of periodic functions, then the spectrum of the operator \(H_ q\) is continuous for \(d>1\).