Almost localization and almost reducibility

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Abstract: We develop a quantitative version of Aubry duality and use it to obtain several sharp estimates for the dynamics of Schr"odinger cocycles associated to a non-perturbatively small analytic potential and Diophantine frequency. In particular, we establish the full version of Eliasson's reducibility theory in this regime (our approach actually leads to improvements even in the perturbative regime: we are able to show, for all energies, ``almost reducibility in some band of analyticity). We also prove 1/2-H"older continuity of the integrated density of states. For the almost Mathieu operator, our results hold through the entire regime of sub-critical coupling and imply also the dry version of the Ten Martini Problem for the concerned parameters.


This paper deals with the dynamics of Schrödinger cocycles associated to a non-perturbatively small analytic potential and Diophantine frequency. Previous results in this field are mostly based on the classical Aubry duality: a Fourier-type transform matches localized eigenfunctions to analytic Bloch waves for the eigenvalue equation of the operator. A drawback in such approaches is the inability to study the set of energies where localization fails and hence they could not lead to an understanding of the whole spectrum. The present paper addresses this issue by developing a quantitive version of Aubry duality that can handle all energies and providing fine estimates for the dynamics of the Schrödinger operator. The results are used to establish the full version of Eliasson's reducibility theory in the non-perturbative setting. The dynamical estimates also yield several immediate corollaries, including 1/2-Hölder continuity of the integrated density of states and the non-collapse of spectral gaps for the almost Mathieu operator.




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