Half line Titchmarsh-Weyl \(m\) functions of vector-valued discrete Schrödinger operators (Q1983289)

The authors consider the \(d\)-dimensional discrete Schrödinger equation \(y(n+1)+y(n-1)+B(n)y(n)=zy(n)\), \(z\in\mathbb{C}\), where for fixed \(n\), \(y(n)=(y_{1}(n), y_{2}(n), \dots, y_{d}(n))^{T}\in\mathbb{C}^{d}\), \(T\) stands for transpose, and \(B(n)\in\mathbb{C}^{d\times d}\) is a Hermitian matrix, that is \(B(n)^{\ast}=B(n)\), where \(^\ast\) stands for complex conjugate transpose. In particular, they focus on the half-line Titchmarsh-Weyl \(m\)-functions associated with the above equation and discuss the properties these functions satisfy. Specifically, they show that these \(m\)-functions are matrix-valued Herglotz functions. Therefore, the set of all half line \(m\)-functions is a subset of a Siegel upper half space. Then the authors describe the action of transfer matrices on these functions. The Siegel upper half space is equipped with a metric defined in terms of the Finsler norm. Finally the authors show that the action of transfer matrices on these \(m\)-functions is distance decreasing.