By generalising Rudins construction of an aperiodic sequence, we derive new substitution-based structures which have purely absolutely continuous diffraction and mixed dynamical spectrum, with absolutely continuous and pure point parts. We discuss several examples, including a construction based on Fourier matrices which yields constant-length substitutions for any length.
Modifying Rudins original construction of the Rudin-Shapiro sequence, we derive a new substitution-based sequence with purely absolutely continuous diffraction spectrum.
We provide an abstract framework for the study of certain spectral properties of parabolic systems; specifically, we determine under which general conditions to expect the presence of absolutely continuous spectral measures. We use these general conditions to derive results for spectral properties of time-changes of unipotent flows on homogeneous spaces of semisimple groups regarding absolutely continuous spectrum as well as maximal spectral type; the time-changes of the horocycle flow are special cases of this general category of flows. In addition we use the general conditions to derive spectral results for twisted horocycle flows and to rederive certain spectral results for skew products over translations and Furstenberg transformations.
In this paper, we prove that for any $d$-frequency analytic quasiperiodic Schrodinger operator, if the frequency is weak Liouvillean, and the potential is small enough, then the corresponding operator has absolutely continuous spectrum. Moreover, in the case $d=2$, we even establish the existence of ac spectrum under small potential and some super-Liouvillean frequency, and this result is optimal due to a recent counterexample of Avila and Jitomirskaya.
We give sufficient conditions for the presence of the absolutely continuous spectrum of a Schrodinger operator on a regular rooted tree without loops (also called regular Bethe lattice or Cayley tree).
We continue to investigate absolutely continuous spectrum of generalized indefinite strings. By following an approach of Deift and Killip, we establish stability of the absolutely continuous spectra of two more model examples of generalized indefinite strings under rather wide perturbations. In particular, one of these results allows us to prove that the absolutely continuous spectrum of the isospectral problem associated with the two-component Camassa-Holm system in a certain dispersive regime is essentially supported on the set $(-infty,-1/2]cup [1/2,infty)$.