The effect of boundary conditions on the density of states for random Schrödinger operators (Q578745)

Let \(V_{\omega}(x)\) be the random field in \({\mathbb{R}}^ d\) of the form \(V_{\omega}(x)=\int_{{\mathbb{R}}^ d}f(x-y)\mu_{\omega}(dy)\), where \(f\in \ell^ 1(L^ p)=\{f: {\mathbb{R}}^ d\to {\mathbb{R}}|\sum_{i\in {\mathbb{Z}}^ d}\int_{C_ 0}| f(x-i)|^ p dx<\infty \}\), \(C_ 0=\{x\in {\mathbb{R}}^ d|| x_ j| \leq\), \(j=1,...,d\}\), \(p>\max (1,d/2)\) and \(\mu_{\omega}\) is an \({\mathbb{Z}}^ d\) invariant measure in the sense that there exist measure preserving metrically transitive transformations \(\{T_ i\}_{i\in {\mathbb{Z}}^ d}\) on the probability space (\(\Omega\),\({\mathcal F},P)\) such that \(\mu_{T_ i\omega}(A)=\mu_{\omega}(A+i)\), for every \(i\in {\mathbb{Z}}^ d\). Denote by \(\Lambda_ N\) the d-dimensional cube of sidelength N centered at the origin and by \(\rho_ N^{\kappa}(d\lambda)=N^{-1}\#\{\lambda_ i\in d\lambda \}\), where \(\lambda_ i\) are the eigenvalues of the Schrödinger operator \(-\Delta +V_{\omega}\) on \(L^ 2(\Lambda_ N)\) with boundary condition \(\kappa\) on \(\partial \Lambda_ N\) \((\kappa =N\) or D corresponds to the Neumann or Dirichlet condition). As was shown by the second author and \textit{F. Martinelli} in J. Phys. A 15, 2139-2156 (1982; Zbl 0492.60055), the vague limit \(\rho^{\kappa}=\lim_{N\to \infty}N^{-d}\rho_ N^{\kappa}\) exists for \(\kappa =N,D\) and in general \(\rho^ N\geq \rho^ D.\) Theorem 1. If \(E\{\exp [t| \mu_{\omega}| (C_ 0)^ k]\}<\infty\) for some \(t>0\) and \(k>p(p-d/2)\), then \(\rho^ D=\rho^ N.\) As consequences of this theorem the authors show that this equality holds for \(V_{\omega}(x)=\sum_{i\in {\mathbb{Z}}^ d}q_ i(\omega)f(x-i)\) where \(\{q_ i\}_{i\in {\mathbb{Z}}^ d}\) are i.i.d. random variables, \(E\{e^{t| q_ 0|^ k}\}<\infty\) (for \(p>d\), \(q_ 0\) could be Gaussian), for the Poisson random measure \(\mu_{\omega}\), \(f\in \ell^ 1(L^{\infty})\), and for some other examples of point measures.