Commutation Relations for Unitary Operators III

Abstract

Let $U$ be a unitary operator defined on some infinite-dimensional complex Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$. Under some suitable regularity assumptions, it is known that a local positive commutation relation between $U$ and an auxiliary self-adjoint operator $A$ defined on $\mathcal{H}$ allows to prove that the spectrum of $U$ has no singular continuous spectrum and a finite point spectrum, at least locally. We prove that under stronger regularity hypotheses, the local regularity properties of the spectral measure of $U$ are improved, leading to a better control of the decay of the correlation functions. As shown in the applications, these results may be applied to the study of periodic time-dependent quantum systems, classical dynamical systems and spectral problems related to the theory of orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle.

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