Counterexamples to the Kotani-Last conjecture for continuum Schrödinger operators via character-automorphic Hardy spaces

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2016.02.023zbMATH Open1337.37037arXiv1405.6343OpenAlexW2962991641WikidataQ122951727 ScholiaQ122951727MaRDI QIDQ261202FDOQ261202

Authors: David Damanik, Peter Yuditskii 

Publication date: 22 March 2016

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Kotani-Last conjecture states that every ergodic operator in one space dimension with non-empty absolutely continuous spectrum must have almost periodic coefficients. This statement makes sense in a variety of settings; for example, discrete Schr"odinger operators, Jacobi matrices, CMV matrices, and continuum Schr"odinger operators. In the main body of this paper we show how to construct counterexamples to the Kotani-Last conjecture for continuum Schr"odinger operators by adapting the approach developed by Volberg and Yuditskii to construct counterexamples to the Kotani-Last conjecture for Jacobi matrices. This approach relates the reflectionless operators associated with the prescribed spectrum to a family of character-automorphic Hardy spaces and then relates the shift action on the space of operators to the resulting action on the associated characters. The key to our approach is an explicit correspondence between the space of continuum reflectionless Schr"odinger operators associated with a given set and the space of reflectionless Jacobi matrices associated with a derived set. Once this correspondence is established we can rely to a large extent on the previous work of Volberg and Yuditskii to produce the resulting action on the space of characters. We analyze this action and identify situations where we can observe absolute continuity without almost periodicity. In the appendix we show how to implement this strategy and obtain analogous results for extended CMV matrices.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.6343

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zbMATH Keywords

absolutely continuous spectrumalmost-automorphic potentialsalmost-periodic potentialscharacter-automorphic Hardy spacesergodic Schrödinger operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Particular ordinary differential operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.) (34L40) Random dynamical systems aspects of multiplicative ergodic theory, Lyapunov exponents (37H15) Linear difference operators (47B39)

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