Arithmetic Landscape Functions of a Discrete Cat Map
Abstract
We study the diagonal Green function of the operator on the finite torus , where is the transfer operator of the discrete cat map . We prove the exact formula , where is the minimal period of under . This formula appears to be new. It shows that the diagonal landscape is a complete spectral invariant of the orbit structure, depending on each point only through its orbit length. Since is a unit in for every , the origin is the unique fixed point of and the unique global maximum of . The resulting localization is driven by arithmetic alone, with no disorder and no broken symmetry, a mechanism distinct from classical Anderson theory and from Filoche--Mayboroda landscape theory. We further establish the Chandra Green--Zeta Identity, showing that the Green trace satisfies , where is the dynamical zeta function of , and that a Laplacian perturbation degrades the localization gap at first order in . All results are verified computationally.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2607.24857,
title = {Arithmetic Landscape Functions of a Discrete Cat Map},
author = {Aryaman Chandra},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.24857},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
15 pages, 6 figures