Wegner estimate for sparse and other generalized alloy type potentials (Q1599746)

Among other things, a Wegner estimate at low energies for distributions which may have a point mass away from the relevant extremal value of their support is proved. Models with nonstationary random variables as well as various deviations from the alloy-type model are treated. The application of the results to the usual alloy-type model imply the Hölder continuity of the integrated density of states at the infimum of the spectrum of the considered operator. To illustrate the results, several examples are presented.