Uniform approximation of the integrated density of states for long-range percolation Hamiltonians (Q2428523)

The author proves that the spectral distribution function of the Laplace operator of an infinite random graph can be uniformly approximated (in the energy variable) along certain sequences of finite subgraphs for a class of infinite random graphs. He also characterizes the set of discontinuities of the spectral distribution function as the set of all eigenvalues of all finite graphs. The vertex set of the graph is given by the elements of a finitely generated amenable group. The edges of the graph are present independently at random between any pair of vertices with probability depending only on their relative location. The expected degree of each vertex is thus the same and assumed to be finite. This is the first result on the uniform approximation of the spectral distribution function of operators which are not of finite hopping range.