A condition for purely absolutely continuous spectrum for CMV operators using the density of states

Fillman, Jake; Ong, Darren

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A condition for purely absolutely continuous spectrum for CMV operators using the density of states
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Abstract:

We prove an averaging formula for the derivative of the absolutely continuous part of the density of states measure for an ergodic family of CMV matrices. As a consequence, we show that the spectral type of such a family is almost surely purely absolutely continuous if and only if the density of states is absolutely continuous and the Lyapunov exponent vanishes almost everywhere with respect to the same. Both of these results are CMV operator analogues of theorems obtained by Kotani for Schrödinger operators.

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