# On the abominable properties of the Almost Mathieu operator with Liouville frequencies

Mira Shamis

## Institution:

Queen Mary, london

## Time:

Thursday, January 14, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

## Location:

zoom https://uci.zoom.us/j/93076750122?pwd=Y3pLdndoQTBuNUhxQUxFMkQ2QnRFQT09

We show that, for sufficiently well approximable frequencies, several spectral characteristics of the Almost Mathieu operator can be as poor as at all possible in the class of all discrete Schroedinger operators. For example, the modulus of continuity of the integrated density of states may be no better than logarithmic. Other characteristics to be discussed are homogeneity, the Parreau-Widom property, and (for the critical AMO) the Hausdorff content of the spectrum. Based on joint work with A. Avila, Y. Last, and Q. Zhou

# THE UMPTEEN OPERATOR

Sasha Sodin

## Institution:

Queen Mary, london

## Time:

Thursday, November 12, 2020 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm

## Location:

zoom https://uci.zoom.us/j/93076750122?pwd=Y3pLdndoQTBuNUhxQUxFMkQ2QnRFQT09

Abstract:

It was found in the 1990s that special linear maps playing a role in the representation theory of the symmetric group share common features with random matrices. We construct a representation-theoretic operator which shares some properties with the Anderson model (or, perhaps, with magnetic random Schroedinger operators), and show that indeed it boasts Lifshitz tails. The proof relies on a close connection between the operator and the infinite board version of the fifteen puzzle.
No background in the representation theory of the symmetric group will be assumed. Based on joint work with Ohad Feldheim.

# Continuity of spectra and spectral measure of quasi-periodic Schr\"odinger operators, 2

Xin Zhao

## Institution:

Nanjing University

## Time:

Thursday, October 31, 2019 - 2:00pm

RH 340

# Speculative and hedging interaction statistical mechanics model in oil and U.S. dollar markets

Michael Campbel

Eureka AI

## Time:

Thursday, January 16, 2020 - 2:00pm

Rh 340

# The spectrum of the critical almost Mathieu operator in the rational case

Igor Krasovsky

Imperial College

## Time:

Friday, February 28, 2020 - 2:00pm

RH 340

# Continuity of spectra and spectral measure of quasi-periodic Schr\"odinger operators, III

Xin Zhao

Nanjing

## Time:

Saturday, December 19, 2020 - 2:00pm

RH 340

# Continuity of spectra and spectral measure of quasi-periodic Schr\"odinger operators, II

Xin Zhao

Nanjing

## Time:

Saturday, October 31, 2020 - 2:00pm

RH 340

# Anderson Localization for Multi-Frequency Quasi-Periodic Operators

Wencai Liu

Texas AM

## Time:

Friday, August 9, 2019 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm

RH 305

# Dynamical delocalization for discrete Schrödinger operators

Simon Becker

## Institution:

Cambridge University

## Time:

Tuesday, March 17, 2020 - 2:00pm

We study discrete magnetic random Schrödinger operators on the square and honeycomb lattice, both with single-site potentials in weak magnetic fields under weak disorder. We show that there is, in the case of the honeycomb lattice, both strong dynamical localization and delocalization close to the conical point. We obtain similar results for the discrete random Schrödinger operator on the Z2-lattice close to the bottom and top of its spectrum. As part of this analysis, we give a rigorous derivation of the quantum hall effect for both models derived from the density of states for which we obtain an asymptotic expansion in the disorder parameter. The expansion implies (leading order in the disorder parameter) universality of the integrated density of states. Finally, we show that on the hexagonal lattice the Dirac cones occur for any rational magnetic flux. We use this observation to study the self-similarity of the Hall conductivity and transport properties of the random operator close to any rational magnetic flux.

Joint work with Rui Han.

# Irreducibility of Fermi variety for periodic Schr\"odinger operators in higher dimensions

Wencai Liu

TAMU

## Time:

Thursday, March 12, 2020 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm

## Location:

RH 340

This is an ongoing project.  Let $H_0$ be a discrete periodic  Schr\"odinger operator on $\Z^d$:

$$H_0=-\Delta+v_0,$$

where $-\Delta$ is the discrete Laplacian and $v_0$ is periodic in the sense that it is well defined on  $\Z^d/q_1\Z\oplus q_2 \Z\oplus\cdots\oplus q_d\Z$. For $d=2$, we tentatively proved that the Fermi variety $F_{\lambda}(v_0)/\Z^2$ is irreducible except for one value of  $\lambda$. We also construct a non-constant periodic function $v_0$ such that its Fermi variety is reducible for  some $\lambda$, which disproves a conjecture by  Gieseker, Kn\"orrer and Trubowitz.

Under some assumptions of irreducibility of Fermi variety $F_{\lambda}(v_0)/\Z^d$, we show that $H=-\Delta +v_0+v$ does not have any embedded eigenvalues provided that $v$ decays  exponentially. The assumptions are conjectured to be true for any periodic function $v_0$. As an application, we show that when $d=2$, $H=-\Delta +v_0+v$ does not have any embedded eigenvalues provided that $v$ decays exponentially.