Useful Bounds on the Extreme Eigenvalues and Vectors of Matrices for Harper’s Operators

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-49182-0_13zbMATH Open1387.60010arXiv1508.05986OpenAlexW1954517709MaRDI QIDQ5269035FDOQ5269035

Angela S. Hicks, Daniel Bump, Laurent Miclo, Persi Diaconis, Harold Widom

Publication date: 14 June 2017

Published in: Large Truncated Toeplitz Matrices, Toeplitz Operators, and Related Topics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In analyzing a simple random walk on the Heisenberg group we encounter the problem of bounding the extreme eigenvalues of an $nimesn$ matrix of the form $M=C+D$ where $C$ is a circulant and $D$ a diagonal matrix. The discrete Schr"odinger operators are an interesting special case. The Weyl and Horn bounds are not useful here. This paper develops three different approaches to getting good bounds. The first uses the geometry of the eigenspaces of $C$ and $D$, applying a discrete version of the uncertainty principle. The second shows that, in a useful limit, the matrix $M$ tends to the harmonic oscillator on $L^2(mathbbR)$ and the known eigenstructure can be transferred back. The third approach is purely probabilistic, extending $M$ to an absorbing Markov chain and using hitting time arguments to bound the Dirichlet eigenvalues. The approaches allow generalization to other walks on other groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.05986

zbMATH Keywords

random walkHeisenberg groupFourier analysisalmost Mathieu operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random matrices (probabilistic aspects) (60B20) Probability measures on groups or semigroups, Fourier transforms, factorization (60B15)

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