The spectral measure of a Jacobi matrix in terms of the Fourier transform of the perturbation

We study the spectral properties of Jacobi matrices. By combining Killip's technique [12] with the technique of Killip and Simon [13] we obtain a result relating the properties of the elements of Jacobi matrices and the corresponding spectral measures. This theorem is a natural extension of a recent result of Laptev-Naboko-Safronov [17]. The author thanks Sergei Naboko for useful discussions and Barry Simon for pointing out the conjecture.     

Jacobi matrices generated by ratios of hypergeometric functions

A problem of determining zeroes of the Gauss hypergeometric function goes back to Klein, Hurwitz, and Van Vleck. In this very short note we show how ratios of hypergeometric functions arise as m-functions of Jacobi matrices and we then revisit the problem based on the recent developments of the spectral theory of non-Hermitian Jacobi matrices.     

Complex Jacobi matrices

Complex Jacobi matrices play an important role in the study of asymptotics and zero distribution of formal orthogonal polynomials (FOPs). The latter are essential tools in several fields of numerical analysis, for instance in the context of iterative methods for solving large systems of linear equations, or in the study of Padé approximation and Jacobi continued fractions. In this paper we present some known and some new results on FOPs in terms of spectral properties of the underlying (infinite) Jacobi matrix, with a special emphasis to unbounded recurrence coefficients. Here we recover several classical results for real Jacobi matrices. The inverse problem of characterizing properties of the Jacobi operator in terms of FOPs and other solutions of a given three-term recurrence is also investigated. This enables us to give results on the approximation of the resolvent by inverses of finite sections, with applications to the convergence of Padé approximants.     

Thin spectra and singular continuous spectral measures for limit-periodic Jacobi matrices

This paper investigates the spectral properties of Jacobi matrices with limit-periodic coefficients. We show that generically the spectrum is a Cantor set of zero Lebesgue measure, and the spectral measures are purely singular continuous. For a dense set of limit-periodic Jacobi matrices, we show that the spectrum is a Cantor set of zero lower box counting dimension while still retaining the singular continuity of the spectral type. We also show how results of this nature can be established by fixing the off-diagonal coefficients and varying only the diagonal coefficients, and, in a more restricted version, by fixing the diagonal coefficients to be zero and varying only the off-diagonal coefficients. We apply these results to produce examples of weighted Laplacians on the multidimensional integer lattice having purely singular continuous spectral type and zero-dimensional spectrum.     

On modified Jacobi linear operators

By means of successive partial substitutions, new fixed point linear equations can be obtained from old ones. The Jacobi method applied to a system in the sequence thus obtained constitutes a partial Gauss-Seidel method applied to the original one, and we analyze the behavior of the sequence of spectral radii of the successive iteration matrices (the modified Jacobi operators); we do this under the assumption that the starting operator is nonnegative with respect to a proper cone and has spectral radius less (or greater) than 1. Our main result is that, if the Jacobi operator obtained after k substitutions is irreducible, then the following one either is the same or has strictly smaller (or greater) spectral radius. This result implies that the whole sequence of spectral radii is monotone.     

Spectral properties of Jacobi matrices and sum rules of special form

In this article, we relate the properties of elements of a Jacobi matrix from certain class to the properties of its spectral measure. The main tools we use are the so-called sum rules introduced by Case in [Orthogonal polynomials from the viewpoint of scattering theory, J. Math. Phys. 15 (1974) 2166-2174; Orthogonal polynomials, II. J. Math. Phys. 16 (1975) 1435-1440]. Later, the sum rules were efficiently applied by Killip-Simon [Sum rules for Jacobi matrices and their applications to spectral theory. Ann. Math. 158 (2003) 253-321] to the spectral analysis of Jacobi matrices. We use a modification of the method that permits us to work with sum rules of higher orders. As a corollary of the main theorem, we obtain a counterpart of a result of Molchanov-Novitskii-Vainberg [First KdV integrals and absolutely continuous spectrum for 1-D Schrödinger operator, Comm. Math. Phys. 216 (2001) 195-213] for a “continuous” Schrödinger operator on a half-line.     

Spectral Gaps Resulting from Periodic Pertubations of a Class of Jacobi Operators

We investigate the spectral properties of a class of Jacobi matrices resulting from periodic pertubations of Jacobi operators with smooth coefficients.     

Direct and inverse spectral problems for a class of non-self-adjoint periodic tridiagonal matrices

The spectral properties of a class of tridiagonal matrices are investigated. The reconstruction of matrices of this special class from given spectral data is also studied. Necessary and sufficient conditions for that reconstruction are found. The obtained results extend some results on the direct and inverse spectral problems for periodic Jacobi matrices and for some non-self-adjoint tridiagonal matrices.     

Random block matrices generalizing the classical Jacobi and Laguerre ensembles

In this paper we consider random block matrices which generalize the classical Laguerre ensemble and the Jacobi ensemble. We show that the random eigenvalues of the matrices can be uniformly approximated by the zeros of matrix orthogonal polynomials and obtain a rate for the maximum difference between the eigenvalues and the zeros. This relation between the random block matrices and matrix orthogonal polynomials allows a derivation of the asymptotic spectral distribution of the matrices.     

Computing the Hessenberg matrix associated with a self-similar measure

We introduce in this paper a method to calculate the Hessenberg matrix of a sum of measures from the Hessenberg matrices of the component measures. Our method extends the spectral techniques used by G. Mantica to calculate the Jacobi matrix associated with a sum of measures from the Jacobi matrices of each of the measures.We apply this method to approximate the Hessenberg matrix associated with a self-similar measure and compare it with the result obtained by a former method for self-similar measures which uses a fixed point theorem for moment matrices. Results are given for a series of classical examples of self-similar measures.Finally, we also apply the method introduced in this paper to some examples of sums of (not self-similar) measures obtaining the exact value of the sections of the Hessenberg matrix.     

Christoffel Transforms and Hermitian Linear Functionals

In this contribution we are focused on some spectral transformations of Hermitian linear functionals. They are the analogues of the Christoffel transform for linear functionals, i. e. for Jacobi matrices which has been deeply studied in the past. We consider Hermitian linear functionals associated with a probability measure supported on the unit circle. In such a case we compare the Hessenberg matrices associated with such a probability measure and its Christoffel transform. In this way, almost unitary matrices appear. We obtain the deviation to the unit matrix both for principal submatrices and the complete matrices respectively.     

Two-weight Hilbert transform and Lipschitz property of Jacobi matrices associated to hyperbolic polynomials

We are going to prove a Lipschitz property of Jacobi matrices built by orthogonalizing polynomials with respect to measures in the orbit of classical Perron-Frobenius-Ruelle operators associated to hyperbolic polynomial dynamics. This Lipschitz estimate will not depend on the dimension of the Jacobi matrix. It is obtained using some sufficient conditions for two-weight boundedness of the Hilbert transform. It has been proved in [F. Peherstorfer, A. Volberg, P. Yuditskii, Limit periodic Jacobi matrices with prescribed p-adic hull and a singular continuous spectrum, Math. Res. Lett. 13 (2-3) (2006) 215-230] for all polynomials with sufficiently big hyperbolicity and in the most symmetric case t=0 that the Lipschitz estimate becomes exponentially better when the dimension of the Jacobi matrix grows. This allows us to get for such polynomials the solution of a problem of Bellissard, in other words, to prove the limit periodicity of the limit Jacobi matrix. We suggest a scheme how to approach Bellissard's problem for all hyperbolic dynamics by uniting the methods of the present paper and those of [F. Peherstorfer, A. Volberg, P. Yuditskii, Limit periodic Jacobi matrices with prescribed p-adic hull and a singular continuous spectrum, Math. Res. Lett. 13 (2-3) (2006) 215-230]. On the other hand, the nearness of Jacobi matrices under consideration in operator norm implies a certain nearness of their canonical spectral measures. One can notice that this last claim just gives us the classical commutative Perron-Frobenius-Ruelle theorem (it is concerned exactly with the nearness of such measures). In particular, in many situations we can see that the classical Perron-Frobenius-Ruelle theorem is a corollary of a certain non-commutative observation concerning the quantitative nearness of pertinent Jacobi matrices in operator norm.     

Existence of a spectral measure for second-order delta dynamic equations on semi-infinite time scale intervals

In this study, we prove existence of a spectral measure (or orthogonality measure) for second-order delta dynamic equations on semi-infinite time scale intervals. A Parseval equality and an expansion in eigenfunctions formula are established in terms of the spectral measure. The result obtained unifies the well-known results on existence of a spectral measure for Sturm-Liouville operators on the real semi-axis and for semi-infinite Jacobi matrices, and extends them to variety of numerous time scales which may, in particular, be fractals.     

Decay Bounds on Eigenfunctions and the Singular Spectrum of Unbounded Jacobi Matrices

Bounds on the exponential decay of generalized eigenfunctionsof bounded and unbounded selfadjoint Jacobi matrices in are established. Two cases are considered separatelyand lead to different results: (i) the case in which the spectralparameter lies in a general gap of the spectrum of the Jacobimatrix and (ii) the case of a lower semibounded Jacobi matrixwith values of the spectral parameter below the spectrum. Itis demonstrated by examples that both results are sharp. Weapply these results to obtain a "many barriers-type" criterionfor the existence of square-summable generalized eigenfunctionsof an unbounded Jacobi matrix at almost every value of the spectralparameter in suitable open sets. In particular, this leads toexamples of unbounded Jacobi matrices with a spectral mobilityedge, i.e., a transition from purely absolutely continuous spectrumto dense pure point spectrum.     

Non-self-adjoint Jacobi matrices with a rank-one imaginary part

We develop direct and inverse spectral analysis for finite and semi-infinite non-self-adjoint Jacobi matrices with a rank-one imaginary part. It is shown that given a set of n not necessarily distinct nonreal numbers in the open upper (lower) half-plane uniquely determines an n×n Jacobi matrix with a rank-one imaginary part having those numbers as its eigenvalues counting algebraic multiplicity. Algorithms of reconstruction for such finite Jacobi matrices are presented. A new model complementing the well-known Livsic triangular model for bounded linear operators with a rank-one imaginary part is obtained. It turns out that the model operator is a non-self-adjoint Jacobi matrix. We show that any bounded, prime, non-self-adjoint linear operator with a rank-one imaginary part acting on some finite-dimensional (respectively separable infinite-dimensional Hilbert space) is unitarily equivalent to a finite (respectively semi-infinite) non-self-adjoint Jacobi matrix. This obtained theorem strengthens a classical result of Stone established for self-adjoint operators with simple spectrum. We establish the non-self-adjoint analogs of the Hochstadt and Gesztesy-Simon uniqueness theorems for finite Jacobi matrices with nonreal eigenvalues as well as an extension and refinement of these theorems for finite non-self-adjoint tri-diagonal matrices to the case of mixed eigenvalues, real and nonreal. A unique Jacobi matrix, unitarily equivalent to the operator of integration in the Hilbert space L₂[0,l] is found as well as spectral properties of its perturbations and connections with the well-known Bernoulli numbers. We also give the analytic characterization of the Weyl functions of dissipative Jacobi matrices with a rank-one imaginary part.     

Absolute Continuity for Unbounded Jacobi Matrices with Constant Row Sums

We investigate the spectral properties of a class of Jacobi matrices in which the subdiagonal entries are quadratics and the row sums are constants.     

Matrix Schrödinger operator with <Emphasis Type="Italic">δ</Emphasis>-interactions

The matrix Schrödinger operator with point interactions on the semiaxis is studied. Using the theory of boundary triplets and the corresponding Weyl functions, we establish a relationship between the spectral properties (deficiency indices, self-adjointness, semiboundedness, etc.) of the operators under study and block Jacobi matrices of certain class.     

On algebraic multi-level methods for non-symmetric systems - Comparison results

We establish theoretical comparison results for algebraic multi-level methods applied to non-singular non-symmetric M-matrices. We consider two types of multi-level approximate block factorizations or AMG methods, the AMLI and the MAMLI method. We compare the spectral radii of the iteration matrices of these methods. This comparison shows, that the spectral radius of the MAMLI method is less than or equal to the spectral radius of the AMLI method. Moreover, we establish how the quality of the approximations in the block factorization effects the spectral radii of the iteration matrices. We prove comparisons results for different approximations of the fine grid block as well as for the used Schur complement. We also establish a theoretical comparison between the AMG methods and the classical block Jacobi and block Gauss-Seidel methods.     

Spectral analysis for linear semi‐infinite mass‐spring systems

We study how the spectrum of a Jacobi operator changes when this operator is modified by a certain finite rank perturbation. The operator corresponds to an infinite mass‐spring system and the perturbation is obtained by modifying one interior mass and one spring of this system. In particular, there are detailed results of what happens in the spectral gaps and which eigenvalues do not move under the modifications considered. These results were obtained by a new tecnique of comparative spectral analysis and they generalize and include previous results for finite and infinite Jacobi matrices.     

An inverse eigenvalue problem for periodic Jacobi matrices in Minkowski spaces

The spectral properties of periodic Jacobi matrices in Minkowski spaces are studied. An inverse problem for these matrices is investigated, and necessary and sufficient conditions under which the problem is solvable are presented. Uniqueness results are also discussed, and an algorithm to construct the solutions and illustrative examples is provided.