On the singular spectrum for adiabatic quasi-periodic Schrödinger operators on the real line (Q701705)

The paper is devoted to the continuation of the author investigations on analysis of the spectrum of the family of differential operators \[ H_{z,\varepsilon}=-\frac{d^2}{dx^2}+V(x-z)+W(\varepsilon x) \] acting on \(L^2(\mathbb{R})\), where \(V(x)\) and \(W(x)\) are periodic, sufficiently regular real valued functions, \(z\in\mathbb{R}\) indexes the family of operators, and \(\varepsilon>0\) is chosen so that the potential \(V(x-z)+W(\varepsilon x)\) is quasi-periodic. In the paper the spectral properties of the operators \(H_{z,\varepsilon}\) for \(\varepsilon\) positive small are studied. It is assumed that the adiabatic iso-energetic curves are extended along the momentum direction. In the energy intervals where this happens, using the monodromy matrix method as in [\textit{A. Fedotov} and \textit{F. Klopp}, Commun. Math. Phys. 227, 1--92 (2002; Zbl 1004.81008)] the asymptotics of the monodromy matrix for the family \((H_{z,\varepsilon})\) is studied. By means of this an asymptotic formulae for the Lyapunov exponent of \(H_{z,\varepsilon}\) is obtained, and pure singularity of the spectrum is shown.