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Equality of the Spectral and Dynamical Definitions of Reflection

Mathematical Physics 2015-05-13 v1 math.MP Spectral Theory

Abstract

For full-line Jacobi matrices, Schr\"odinger operators, and CMV matrices, we show that being reflectionless, in the sense of the well-known property of mm-functions, is equivalent to a lack of reflection in the dynamics in the sense that any state that goes entirely to x=x=-\infty as tt\to -\infty goes entirely to x=x=\infty as tt\to\infty. This allows us to settle a conjecture of Deift and Simon from 1983 regarding ergodic Jacobi matrices.

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@article{arxiv.0905.3724,
  title  = {Equality of the Spectral and Dynamical Definitions of Reflection},
  author = {Jonathan Breuer and Eric Ryckman and Barry Simon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.3724},
  year   = {2015}
}