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On Spatial Conditioning of the Spectrum of Discrete Random Schr\"odinger Operators

Mathematical Physics 2023-03-13 v2 math.MP Probability Spectral Theory

Abstract

Consider a random Schr\"odinger-type operator of the form H:=HX+V+ξH:=-H_X+V+\xi acting on a general graph G=(V,E)\mathscr G=(\mathscr V,\mathscr E), where HXH_X is the generator of a Markov process XX on G\mathscr G, VV is a deterministic potential with sufficient growth (so that HH has a purely discrete spectrum), and ξ\xi is a random noise with at-most-exponential tails. We prove that HH's eigenvalue point process is number rigid in the sense of Ghosh and Peres (Duke Math. J. 166 (2017), no. 10, 1789--1858); that is, the number of eigenvalues in any bounded domain BCB\subset\mathbb C is determined by the configuration of eigenvalues outside of BB. Our general setting allows to treat cases where XX could be non-symmetric (hence HH is non-self-adjoint) and ξ\xi has long-range dependence. Our strategy of proof consists of controlling the variance of the trace of the semigroup etH\mathrm e^{-t H} using the Feynman-Kac formula.

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@article{arxiv.2101.00319,
  title  = {On Spatial Conditioning of the Spectrum of Discrete Random Schr\"odinger Operators},
  author = {Pierre Yves Gaudreau Lamarre and Promit Ghosal and Yuchen Liao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.00319},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

32 pages; revised version incorporating referee comments and fixing a few misprints and errors. Accepted in the Journal of Spectral Theory