The repetition property for sequences on tori generated by polynomials or skew-shifts

DOI10.1007/S11856-009-0109-7MaRDI QIDQ2655779zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Damanik, Michael Boshernitzan

Publication date 26 January 2010

Published in Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.3234

zbMATH Keywords

repetition propertySchrödinger operatorskew-shift

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Second-order elliptic equations (35J15) Notions of recurrence and recurrent behavior in topological dynamical systems (37B20)

Abstract: The repetition property of a sequence in a metric space, a notion introduced by us in an earlier paper, is of importance in the spectral analysis of ergodic Schr"odinger operators. It may be used to exclude eigenvalues for such operators. In this paper we study the question of when a sequence on a torus that is generated by a polynomial or a skew-shift has the repetition property. This provides classes of ergodic Schr"odinger operators with potentials generated by skew-shifts on tori that have, contrary to earlier belief, no eigenvalues.

Review text

The authors [Commun. Math. Phys. 283, No. 3, 647--662 (2008; Zbl 1159.35016)] introduced the following notion for a sequence \((\omega_n)\) in a metric space \(\Omega\): it has the repetition property RP if and only if for every \(r\in\mathbb N\) there exists \(q\in\mathbb N\) with \(d(\omega_n,\omega_{n+q})<1/r\) for every \(n=0,1,2,\dots,rq\), and a map \(T:\Omega\to\Omega\) has the topological repetition property TRP if the set of points whose forward orbit has RP is non-empty, a metric analogue MRP with respect to some \(T\)-invariant measure if the set has positive measure, and has GRP (global) if the orbit of every point has RP. Here some general properties of these notions are explored, and the particular case of sequences on the torus generated by a polynomial or skew-shifts is considered in detail. These provide classes of ergodic Schrödinger operators with potentials generated by skew-shifts on the torus that have no eigenvalues.

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