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Sharp arithmetic delocalization for quasiperiodic operators with potentials of semi-bounded variation

Spectral Theory 2024-09-02 v1 Mathematical Physics Dynamical Systems math.MP

Abstract

We obtain the sharp arithmetic Gordon's theorem: that is, absence of eigenvalues on the set of energies with Lyapunov exponent bounded by the exponential rate of approximation of frequency by the rationals, for a large class of one-dimensional quasiperiodic Schr\"odinger operators, with no (modulus of) continuity required. The class includes all unbounded monotone potentials with finite Lyapunov exponents and all potentials of bounded variation. The main tool is a new uniform upper bound on iterates of cocycles of bounded variation.

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@article{arxiv.2408.16935,
  title  = {Sharp arithmetic delocalization for quasiperiodic operators with potentials of semi-bounded variation},
  author = {Svetlana Jitomirskaya and Ilya Kachkovskiy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.16935},
  year   = {2024}
}
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