From uncertainty principles to Wegner estimates (Q430006)

The paper deals with Wegner estimates for Hamiltonian operators \(H_L\) that arise in the restriction of Anderson-type Schrödinger operators \(H\) to cubes \(L=(\tfrac{L}{2},\tfrac{L}{2})^d\). A Wegner estimate gives an a priori bound for the resolvent with a very high probability. Wegner estimates are crucial in any rigorous approach to the Anderson localization. Wegner estimates demonstrate that the expected number of eigenvalues of \(H_L\) within a small spectral interval \(I\) is bounded from above by \(C(L)|I|\), where the length of the interval \(|I|\) is small. If the length of the interval \(I\) approaches zero, one is able to deduce upper bounds on the averaged density of states and Lipschitz continuity of the averaged integrated density of states. The author shows that an uncertainty principle for random Hamiltonians and its spectral projections yield Wegner estimates with correct volume term. In an erratum to the present paper [ibid. 16, 109--110 (2013; \url{doi:10.1007/s11040-012-9124-8})], the author notes that the proof of Theorem 4.1 is not correct.