Speaker: 

Laura Shou

Institution: 

Caltech

Time: 

Thursday, November 6, 2014 - 3:00pm

Location: 

RH 340P

For discrete Schrödinger operators with potential given by a trigonometric polynomial of cosines (called generalized Harper's model), we use the complexified Lyapunov exponent to prove a criterion for subcritical energies in the spectrum and a criterion for supercritical energies. This work was done through the Caltech SURF program, with mentor Christoph Marx.