Speaker:
May Mei
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Institution:
UCI
Time:
Thursday, November 15, 2012 - 2:00pm
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Location:
RH 306
We study the spectrum of discrete Schrodinger operators with potential given by a primitive invertible substitution sequence (and in fact our results hold for a larger class of potentials). We show this family of operators has a spectrum which is a dynamically defined Cantor set of zero Lebesgue measure. We also show that the Hausdorff dimension of this set depends analytically on the coping constant lambda and tends to 1 as lambda tends to 0. Finally, we show that at small coupling constant, all gaps allowed by the gap labeling theorem are open and furthermore open linearly.