Cantor spectrum for Schrödinger operators with potentials arising from generalized skew-shifts (Q999253)

Continuous SL\((2,\mathbb R)\)- cocycles over a strictly ergodic homemorphism that fibers over an almost dynamical system showed (generalized skew-shifts) is considered in this work. It is proved that any cocycle that is not uniformly hyperbolic can be approximated by one that conjugate to an SO\((2,\mathbb R)\)-cocycle. A cocycle's homotopy class does not display a certain obstruction to uniform hyperbolicity showed. For cocycles arising from Schrödinger operators it is concluded that uniform hyperbolicity is dense, which implies that for a generic continuous potential, the spectrum of the corresponding Schrödinger operator is a Cantor set. The basic results are presented in 12 lemmas, 10 remarks and 8 theorems.