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A Useful Formula for Periodic Jacobi Matrices on Trees

Spectral Theory 2023-09-04 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We introduce a function of the density of states for periodic Jacobi matrices on trees and prove a useful formula for it. This allows new, streamlined proofs of the gap labeling and Aomoto index theorems. We prove a version of this new formula for the Anderson model on trees.

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@article{arxiv.2309.00437,
  title  = {A Useful Formula for Periodic Jacobi Matrices on Trees},
  author = {Jess Banks and Jonathan Breuer and Jorge Garza Vargas and Eyal Seelig and Barry Simon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.00437},
  year   = {2023}
}
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