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Reduced transfer operators for singular difference equations

Mathematical Physics 2022-11-10 v1 math.MP

Abstract

For tridiagonal block Jacobi operators, the standard transfer operator techniques only work if the off-diagonal entries are invertible. Under suitable assumptions on the range and kernel of these off-diagonal operators which assure a homogeneous minimal coupling between the blocks, it is shown how to construct reduced transfer operators that have the usual Krein space unitarity property and also a crucial monotonicity in the energy variable. This allows to extend the results of oscillation theory to such systems.

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@article{arxiv.2211.05029,
  title  = {Reduced transfer operators for singular difference equations},
  author = {Hermann Schulz-Baldes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.05029},
  year   = {2022}
}

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to appear in the J. Difference Equations and Applications

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