Speaker: 

May Mei

Institution: 

UC Irvine

Time: 

Tuesday, March 1, 2011 - 3:00pm

Location: 

RH 440R

We will be looking at the trace map of the discrete Schrodinger operator with potential given by the period doubling sequence. It is known that for any positive coupling constant the spectrum of the corresponding operator is a Cantor set of Lebesgue measure zero. We are interested in the structure of the spectrum for small coupling constant, specifically the Hausdorff dimension and thickness.