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One of the main tools used to understand both qualitative and quantitative spectral behaviour of periodic and almost periodic Schr\"odinger operators is the method of gauge transform. In this paper, we extend this method to an abstract…
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Notes of the lectures delivered in Les Houches during the Summer School on Complex Systems (July 2006).
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