Spectral analysis of transfer operators associated to Farey fractions

DOI10.4171/RLM/505MaRDI QIDQ931058zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Claudio Bonanno, Sandro Graffi, S. Isola

Publication date 24 June 2008

Published in Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. Serie IX. Rendiconti Lincei. Matematica e Applicazioni (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.0686

zbMATH Keywords

Farey fractionsPeriod functionsSelf-reciprocal functionsSpectral theoryTransfer operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Farey sequences; the sequences (1^k, 2^k, dots) (11B57) Functional analytic techniques in dynamical systems; zeta functions, (Ruelle-Frobenius) transfer operators, etc. (37C30) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10)

Abstract: The spectrum of a one-parameter family of signed transfer operators associated to the Farey map is studied in detail. We show that when acting on a suitable Hilbert space of analytic functions they are self-adjoint and exhibit absolutely continuous spectrum and no non-zero point spectrum. Polynomial eigenfunctions when the parameter is a negative half-integer are also discussed.

Review text

This paper deals with a particular family of signed generalized transfer operators \(\mathcal{P}_q^\pm\), \(q\) being a real or complex parameter, that are related to the Farey map on \([0,1]\): \[ F(x)=\left\{ \begin{matrix} \frac{x}{1-x} & \text{if \(0\leq x\leq 1/2\),}\cr \frac{1-x}{x} & \text{if \(1/2\leq x\leq 1\).}\cr \end{matrix} \right. \] The action of \(\mathcal{P}_q^\pm\) on a complex-valued function \(f\) defined on \([0,1]\) is a weighted sum over the values of \(f\) on the set \(F^{-1}(x)\) as follows: \[ \big(\mathcal{P}_q^\pm f\big)(x)=\left(\frac{1}{x+1}\right)^{2q} \left[f\left(\frac{x}{x+1}\right)\pm f\left(\frac{1}{x+1}\right)\right]. \] The authors prove that that for any \(q\in (0,\infty)\) there exists a Hilbert space \(\mathcal{H}_q\) of analytic functions on which the operators \(\mathcal{P}_q^\pm\) are bounded, self adjoint, iso-spectral and exhibit absolutely continuous spectrum and no non-zero point spectrum. The paper also discusses polynomial eigenfunctions when the parameter \(q\) is of the form \(q=-k/2\), \(k\) a non-negative integer.

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