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Limit periodic Jacobi matrices with a singular continuous spectrum and the renormalization of periodic matrices

Mathematical Physics 2016-09-07 v1 math.MP Spectral Theory

Abstract

Our main result asserts that a certain natural non-linear operator on Jacobi matrices built by a hyperbolic polynomial with real Julia set is a contraction in operator norm if the polynomial is sufficiently hyperbolic. This allows us to get for such polynomials the solution of a problem of Bellissard, in other words, to prove the limit periodicity of the limit Jacobi matrix. This fact does not require the iteration of the same fixed polynomial, and therefore it gives a wide class of limit periodic Jacobi matrices with singular continuous spectrum.

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0510019,
  title  = {Limit periodic Jacobi matrices with a singular continuous spectrum and the renormalization of periodic matrices},
  author = {F. Peherstorfer and A. Volberg and P. Yuditskii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0510019},
  year   = {2016}
}