Sparse potentials with fractional Hausdorff dimension.

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Abstract: We construct non-random bounded discrete half-line Schr" odinger operators which have purely singular continuous spectral measures with fractional Hausdorff dimension (in some interval of energies). To do this we use suitable sparse potentials. Our results also apply to whole line operators, as well as to certain random operators. In the latter case we prove and compute an exact dimension of the spectral measures.


This paper deals with the discrete half-line Schrödinger operator \(H_{\phi}\) on \(\ell^2({\mathbb Z}^+)\) \( = \ell^2(\{1,2, \dots\})\) given by \( (H_{\phi}u)(x) \equiv u(x+1) + u(x-1) + V(x)u(x) \) with sparse, bounded, non-decaying potential \(V(x)\) and with boundary condition \(\phi \in (-\frac{\pi}{2}, \tfrac{\pi}{2}]\): \( u(0) \cos \phi + u(1)\sin \phi = 0. \) Let \(\mu_{\phi}\) be its spectral measure, which is a measure on \({\mathbb R}\). For \(0 \leq \alpha \leq 1\), \(\mu_{\phi}\) is said to be \(\alpha\)-continuous (resp. \(\alpha\)-singular) if it is absolutely continuous (resp. singular) with respect to the \(\alpha\)-dimensional Hausdorff measure. \(\mu_{\phi}\) is said to have fractional Hausdorff dimension in some interval \(J\) if \(\mu_{\phi}(J \cap \cdot)\) is \(\alpha\)-continuous and \((1-\alpha)\)-singular for some \(\alpha >0\). The main result is : Let \(V(x)\) be taken as the sparse potential with equal barriers \[ V(x) = V_{v,\gamma}(x) \equiv \begin{cases} v, & x= \gamma^n \text{ for some } n\geq 1,\\ 0, &\text{ otherwise}, \end{cases} \] with a real number \(v \not= 0\) and an integer \(\gamma \geq 2\). Then for every closed interval \(J \subset (-2,2)\) there is \(v_0 >0\) and \(\gamma_0 \in {\mathbb N}\) such that for any \(\phi\) the measure \(\mu_{\phi}\) has fractional Hausdorff dimension in \(J\) if \(0<| v| < v_0\) and \(\gamma \geq \gamma_0v^{-2}\) is an integer. This \(\mu_{\phi}\) is purely singular continuous. As to the tools for the proof, the author uses the results by \textit{S. Jitomirskaya} and \textit{Y. Last} [Acta Math. 183, 171--189 (1999; Zbl 0991.81021)], which gave a direct link between the power growth/decay of eigenfunctions and the Hausdorff dimension of the spectral measure. The author also considers a certain randomization of the potential \(V_{v,\gamma}(x)\) to derive the exact fractional Hausdorff dimension for almost everywhere realization of the potential and almost everywhere boundary condition, and the corresponding problem for whole-line operators.




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