On the spectrum and numerical range of tridiagonal random operators (Q290728)

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On the spectrum and numerical range of tridiagonal random operators
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    On the spectrum and numerical range of tridiagonal random operators (English)
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    3 June 2016
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    Summary: In this paper, we derive an explicit formula for the numerical range of (non-selfadjoint) tridiagonal random operators. As a corollary, we obtain that the numerical range of such an operator is always the convex hull of its spectrum, this (surprisingly) holding whether or not the random operator is normal. Furthermore, we introduce a method to compute numerical ranges of (not necessarily random) tridiagonal operators that is based on the Schur test. In a somewhat combinatorial approach we use this method to compute the numerical range of the square of the (generalized) Feinberg-Zee random hopping matrix to obtain an improved upper bound to the spectrum. In particular, we show that the spectrum of the Feinberg-Zee random hopping matrix is not convex.
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    random operator
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    spectrum
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    numerical range
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    tridiagonal
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    pseudo-ergodic
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