AF Embeddings and the Numerical Computation of Spectra in Irrational Rotation Algebras

DOI10.1080/01630560600790785zbMATH Open1105.65060arXivmath/0312315OpenAlexW2154889662MaRDI QIDQ5485897FDOQ5485897

Authors: Nathanial P. Brown 

Publication date: 4 September 2006

Published in: Numerical Functional Analysis and Optimization (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The spectral analysis of discretized one-dimensional Schr"{o}dinger operators is a very difficult problem which has been studied by numerous mathematicians. A natural problem at the interface of numerical analysis and operator theory is that of finding finite dimensional matrices whose eigenvalues approximate the spectrum of an infinite dimensional operator. In this note we observe that the seminal work of Pimsner-Voiculescu on AF embeddings of irrational rotation algebras provides a nice answer to the finite dimensional spectral approximation problem for a broad class of operators including the quasiperiodic case of the Schr"{o}dinger operators mentioned above. Indeed, the theory of continued fractions not only provides good matrix models for spectral computations (i.e. the Pimsner-Voiculescu construction) but also yields {em sharp} rates of convergence for spectral approximations of operators in irrational rotation algebras.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0312315

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zbMATH Keywords

convergencecontinued fractionsspectrum approximationHausdorff distance of spectra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Applications of functional analysis in numerical analysis (46N40) Numerical solutions to equations with linear operators (65J10)

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• \(C^*\)-algebras by example
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• Absolutely continuous spectrum for 1D quasiperiodic operators.
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• On the computation of geometric features of spectra of linear operators on Hilbert spaces
• On spectral approximation, Følner sequences and crossed products
• Følner Sequences in Operator Theory and Operator Algebras
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• The foundations of spectral computations via the solvability complexity index hierarchy
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• Rotation algebras and continued fractions
• On the solvability complexity index, the \(n\)-pseudospectrum and approximations of spectra of operators

Uses Software

• Pseudospectra

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