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Subcritical behavior for quasi-periodic Schr\"odinger cocycles with trigonometric potentials

Mathematical Physics 2015-11-03 v2 math.MP

Abstract

We give a criterion implying subcritical behavior for quasi-periodic Schr\"odinger operators where the potential sampling function is given by a trigonometric polynomial. Subcritical behavior, in the sense of Avila's global theory, is known to imply purely absolutely continuous spectrum for all irrational frequencies and all phases.

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@article{arxiv.1509.05279,
  title  = {Subcritical behavior for quasi-periodic Schr\"odinger cocycles with trigonometric potentials},
  author = {C. A. Marx and L. H. Shou and J. L. Wellens},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.05279},
  year   = {2015}
}

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to appear in the Journal of Spectral Theory