Opening gaps in the spectrum of strictly ergodic Schrödinger operators

DOI10.4171/JEMS/296zbMATH Open1263.37007arXiv0903.2281MaRDI QIDQ653288FDOQ653288

Artur Avila, David Damanik, J. Bochi

Publication date: 9 January 2012

Published in: Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider Schr"odinger operators with dynamically defined potentials arising from continuous sampling along orbits of strictly ergodic transformations. The Gap Labeling Theorem states that the possible gaps in the spectrum can be canonically labelled by an at most countable set defined purely in terms of the dynamics. Which labels actually appear depends on the choice of the sampling function; the missing labels are said to correspond to collapsed gaps. Here we show that for any collapsed gap, the sampling function may be continuously deformed so that the gap immediately opens. As a corollary, we conclude that for generic sampling functions, all gaps are open. The proof is based on the analysis of continuous $SL(2,R)$ cocycles, for which we obtain dynamical results of independent interest.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.2281

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ergodicity, mixing, rates of mixing (37A25) Schrödinger operator, Schrödinger equation (35J10) Algebraic ergodic theory, cocycles, orbit equivalence, ergodic equivalence relations (37A20) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Linear operators on special spaces (weighted shifts, operators on sequence spaces, etc.) (47B37) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Lattice dynamics; integrable lattice equations (37K60) Ergodic theory of linear operators (47A35)

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