Spectral decimation of a self-similar version of almost Mathieu-type operators

Abstract

We introduce self-similar versions of the one-dimensional almost Mathieu operators. Our definition is based on a class of self-similar Laplacians instead of the standard discrete Laplacian, and includes the classical almost Mathieu operators as a particular case. Our main result establishes that the spectra of these self-similar almost Mathieu operators can be completely described by the spectra of the corresponding self-similar Laplacians through the spectral decimation framework used in the context of spectral analysis on fractals. In addition, the self-similar structure of our model provides a natural finite graph approximation model. This approximation is not only helpful in executing the numerical simulation, but is also useful in finding the spectral decimation function via Schur complement computations of given finite-dimensional matrices. The self-similar Laplacians used in our model were considered recently by Chen and Teplyaev who proved the emergence of singularly continuous spectra for specific parameters. We use this result to arrive at similar conclusions in the context of the self-similar almost Mathieu operators. Finally, we derive an explicit formula of the integrated density of states of the self-similar almost Mathieu operators as the weighted pre-images of the balanced invariant measure on a specific Julia set.

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