A class of almost periodic Jacobi matrices, two-weight Hilbert transform, and noncommutative Perron-Frobenius theorem

Speaker: 

Alexander Volberg

Institution: 

Michigan State University

Time: 

Thursday, October 7, 2004 - 2:00pm

Location: 

MSTB 254

We consider Jacobi matrices built on equilibrium measures of hyperbolic polynomials. We show their property, which, on one side, is related to almost periodicity of such matrices, and, on the other side, is a sort of noncommutative
Perron-Frobenius-Ruelle theorem. While proving these key property one is naturally brought to consider a two-weight Hilbert transform. Its boundedness can be proved in our situation, while the general two-weight Hilbert transform
boundedness criterion is not yet available.
We will mention other problems in spectral theory of Jacobi matrices, where this paradigm of nonhomogeneous harmonic analysis---two weight Hilbert transform---appears in the natural way.

Universality in Random Matrix Theory for Universality in Random Matrix Theory for Orthogonal and

Speaker: 

Dmitry Gioev

Institution: 

University of Pennsylvania

Time: 

Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 2:00pm

Location: 

MSTB 254

This is a joint work with P.Deift.
We give a rigorous proof of the Universality Conjecture
in Random Matrix Theory for orthogonal (beta=1) and
symplectic (beta=4) ensembles in the scaling limit
for a class of polynomial potentials
whose equilibrium measure is supported on
a single interval.
Our starting point is Widom's representation
of the correlation kernels for the beta=1,4 cases
in terms of the unitary (beta=2) correlation kernel
plus a correction.
In the asymptotic analysis of the correction terms
we use amongst other things differential equations for the derivatives
of orthogonal polynomials (OP's) due to Tracy-Widom,
and uniform Plancherel-Rotach type asymptotics for OP's
due to Deift-Kriecherbauer-McLaughlin-Venakides-Zhou.
The problem reduces to a small norm problem
for a certain matrix of a fixed size
that is equal to the degree of the polynomial potential.

Spectral asymptotics for non-selfadjoint perturbations of selfadjoint operators

Speaker: 

Michael Hitrik

Institution: 

UCLA

Time: 

Thursday, May 20, 2004 - 2:00pm

Location: 

MSTB 254

Following a work by A. Melin and J. Sj\"ostrand, it has become
increasingly clear that non-selfadjoint operators in dimension two share many of the pleasant features of operators in dimension one. In particular, in the semiclassical limit, it is often possible to get complete asymptotics for individual eigenvalues of such operators in some domain in the complex plane, by means of a suitable Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization rule. In this talk, we would like to report on some recent results in this direction obtained together with Johannes Sj\"ostrand, as
a part of an ongoing program on small non-selfadjoint perturbations of selfadjoint operators. We shall also try to discuss applications to asymptotics of scattering poles for semiclassical Schr\"odinger operators, and to dissipative wave equations on compact manifolds.

Spectral Analysis of Percolation Hamiltonians

Speaker: 

Ivan Veselic

Institution: 

Caltech

Time: 

Thursday, June 10, 2004 - 2:00pm

Location: 

MSTB 254

We study the family of Hamiltonians which corresponds to the
adjacency operators on a percolation graph. We characterise the set of
energies which are almost surely eigenvalues with finitely supported
eigenfunctions. This set of energies is a dense subset of the algebraic
integers. The integrated density of states has discontinuities precisely
at this set of energies. We show that the convergence of the integrated
densities of states of finite box Hamiltonians to the one on the whole
space holds even at the points of discontinuity. For this we use an
equicontinuity-from-the-right argument. The same statements hold for the
restriction of the Hamiltonian to the infinite cluster. In this case we
prove that the integrated density of states can be constructed using local
data only. Finally we study some mixed Anderson-Quantum percolation models
and establish results in the spirit of Wegner, and Delyon and Souillard.

Bounds on spectral measures of Schr"odinger operators

Speaker: 

Christian Remling

Institution: 

University Osnabruck, Germany

Time: 

Monday, August 30, 2004 - 2:00pm

Location: 

MSTB 254

Consider a Schr"odinger operator on L_2(0,\infty),
and suppose that the potential V is known on an initial interval
[0,N]. We then prove bounds on the spectral measure \rho(I)
of intervals I. This extends (very) classical work of Chebyshev
and Markov on orthogonal polynomials.

Discrete one-dimensional quasi-periodic Schroedinger operators with

Speaker: 

Silvius Klein

Institution: 

UCLA

Time: 

Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 2:00pm

Location: 

MSTB 254

We consider the discrete one-dimensional quasi-periodic
Schroedinger operator with potential defined by a Gevrey-class function.
We show - in the perturbative regime - that the operator satisfies
Anderson localization and that the Lyapunov exponent is positive and
continuous for all energies. We also mention a partial nonperturbative
result valid for some particular Gevrey classes. These results extend
some recent work by J. Bourgain, M. Goldstein, W. Schlag to a more general
class of potentials.

A generalized variational principle for the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass model

Speaker: 

Dr. Shannon Starr

Institution: 

McGill University

Time: 

Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 11:00am

Location: 

MSTB 254

Recently Michael Aizenman, Bob Sims and I formulated a
generalized variational principle (GVP) for the SK model and its
relatives. Our result is based on the recent developments of F. Guerra and
F. Toninelli, but is equally well motivated by the physicists' approach as
in the book by Parisi, Mezard and Virasoro. In this talk, I will give an
introduction to the SK model, describe the Parisi ansatz, and show how an
elementary, but little-known, fact about Gaussian processes implies the
GVP almost trivially. I will end with a brief description of some special
Poisson-Kingman distributions, called Poisson-Dirichlet processes,
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