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Generalized Aubry-Andr\'e formula and continuity of the intersection spectrum of the Almost Mathieu operator

Spectral Theory 2026-04-28 v1 Mathematical Physics Dynamical Systems math.MP

Abstract

We consider the spectrum of the Almost Mathieu operator (AMO) and show that the moments of the restriction of the Lebesgue measure to the intersection spectrum LebΣα,λ\text{Leb}|_{\Sigma_{\alpha,\lambda}} are polynomials in coupling λ\lambda with coefficients that are trigonometric polynomials in frequency α\alpha. The statement can be considered as a generalization of the Aubry-Andr\'e formula for the measure of the spectrum of AMO. As a corollary, we obtain that the restriction of the Lebesgue measure to the intersection spectrum that we denote by μα,λ\mu^{-}_{\alpha, \lambda} depends continuously on the parameters (frequency α\alpha and coupling λ\lambda) in weak-* topology. Moreover, we prove that the dependence is not just continuous but analytic in λ\lambda and CC^{\infty} in α\alpha in a sense that an integral of an analytic test function φ(x)\varphi(x) with respect to μα,λ\mu^{-}_{\alpha, \lambda} has the same kind of dependence. In particular, this implies that the Lebesgue measure of the part of the spectrum Σα,λ\Sigma_{\alpha,\lambda} that lies between two gaps depends analytically on the coupling constant λ\lambda and CC^{\infty} on the frequency α\alpha in an open domain (away from the critical coupling λ=1\lambda=1) where these gaps do not bifurcate.

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@article{arxiv.2604.23852,
  title  = {Generalized Aubry-Andr\'e formula and continuity of the intersection spectrum of the Almost Mathieu operator},
  author = {Anton Gorodetski and Victor Kleptsyn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.23852},
  year   = {2026}
}

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38 pages