Cantor Spectrum for the Almost Mathieu Operator. Corollaries of localization,reducibility and duality

DOI10.1007/S00220-003-0977-3arXivmath-ph/0309004WikidataQ56688304 ScholiaQ56688304MaRDI QIDQ6469014FDOQ6469014

Authors: Joaquim Puig 

Publication date: 1 September 2003

Abstract: In this paper we use results on reducibility, localization and duality for the Almost Mathieu operator, [ (H_{b,phi} x)_n= x_{n+1} +x_{n-1} + b cos(2 pi n omega + phi)x_n ] on $l^2(mathbbZ)$ and its associated eigenvalue equation to deduce that for $be0,pm2$ and $omega$ Diophantine the spectrum of the operator is a Cantor subset of the real line. This solves the so-called ``Ten Martini Problem for these values of $b$ and $omega$. Moreover, we prove that for $|b|e0$ small enough or large enough all spectral gaps predicted by the Gap Labelling theorem are open.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diophantine approximation in probabilistic number theory (11K60) Difference operators (39A70)

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