Discrete Schrödinger operators with potentials defined by measurable sampling functions over Liouville torus rotations (Q1700652)

A one-dimensional discrete Schrödinger operator \(H_{\omega}\) acting on \(\ell^{2}(\mathbb{Z})\), defined through \[ \left(H_{\omega}y\right)(j)= y(j+1)+y(j-1)+V\left(\omega+j\overline{\alpha}\right)y(j) \qquad \left(j\in \mathbb{Z}\right) \] is considered. Here \(\omega \in \mathbb{T}^{k}=\mathbb{R}^{k}/\mathbb{Z}^{k}\), \(\alpha=(\alpha_{1}, \dots, \alpha_{k})\), \(\overline{\alpha}\) is the projection of \(\alpha\) on \(\mathbb{T}^{k}\) and \(V\) is a complex-valued function on \(\mathbb{T}^{k}\). It is well known that if the function \(V\) is continuous and the frequency vector \(\alpha\) is Liouville, then the operator \(H_{\omega}\) with any \(\omega\in \mathbb{T}^{k}\) has no eigenvalues (in fact, no eigenfunctions decaying at \(\pm \infty\)). The main aim of this paper is to extend and generalize the above result by showing that if the function \(V\) is Borel measurable and the frequency vector \(\alpha\) is Liouville, then for Lebesgue almost every \(\omega \in \mathbb{T}^{k}\), the point spectrum of the operator \(H_{\omega}\) is empty.