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Almost Mathieu operators with completely resonant phases

Part of: Smooth dynamical systems: general theory Random dynamical systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2018

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Abstract

Let $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}\in \mathbb{R}\backslash \mathbb{Q}$ and $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FD}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC})=\limsup _{n\rightarrow \infty }(\ln q_{n+1})/q_{n}<\infty$, where $p_{n}/q_{n}$ is the continued fraction approximation to $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}$. Let $(H_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D706},\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC},\unicode[STIX]{x1D703}}u)(n)=u(n+1)+u(n-1)+2\unicode[STIX]{x1D706}\cos 2\unicode[STIX]{x1D70B}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D703}+n\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC})u(n)$ be the almost Mathieu operator on $\ell ^{2}(\mathbb{Z})$, where $\unicode[STIX]{x1D706},\unicode[STIX]{x1D703}\in \mathbb{R}$. Avila and Jitomirskaya [The ten Martini problem. Ann. of Math. (2), 170(1) (2009), 303–342] conjectured that, for $2\unicode[STIX]{x1D703}\in \unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}\mathbb{Z}+\mathbb{Z}$, $H_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D706},\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC},\unicode[STIX]{x1D703}}$ satisfies Anderson localization if $|\unicode[STIX]{x1D706}|>e^{2\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FD}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC})}$. In this paper, we develop a method to treat simultaneous frequency and phase resonances and obtain that, for $2\unicode[STIX]{x1D703}\in \unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}\mathbb{Z}+\mathbb{Z}$, $H_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D706},\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC},\unicode[STIX]{x1D703}}$ satisfies Anderson localization if $|\unicode[STIX]{x1D706}|>e^{3\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FD}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC})}$.

Keywords

arithmetic and algebraic dynamicsclassical ergodic theorynumber theory

MSC classification

Primary: 37H15: Multiplicative ergodic theory, Lyapunov exponents
Secondary: 37C55: Periodic and quasiperiodic flows and diffeomorphisms
Type
Original Article
Information
Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 40 , Issue 7 , July 2020 , pp. 1875 - 1893
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© Cambridge University Press, 2018

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