Verblunsky coefficients with Coulomb-type decay (Q2369536)

Recently, B. Simon, extending the result of B. Golinskii- I. Ibragimov, suggested a new class of measures \(\mu\) on the unit circle with Verblunsky coefficients \(\alpha_n(\mu)\) satisfying \[ \sum_{n=0}^N (n+1)| \alpha_n(\mu)| ^2\leq A\log N \] for some \(A<\infty\). He proved that for \(A<1/4\) such measures are absolutely continuous, and for every \(A>1/4\) there are measures having finite number of mass points. The main result of the present paper states that the measures with the above Verblunsky coefficients and any \(A<\infty\) have no singular continuous component.