We disprove a conjecture of Breuer–Last–Simon (Breuer et al. in Constr Approx 32(2):221–254, 2010) concerning the absolutely continuous spectrum of Jacobi matrices with coefficients that obey an ℓ2 bounded variation condition… Click to show full abstract
We disprove a conjecture of Breuer–Last–Simon (Breuer et al. in Constr Approx 32(2):221–254, 2010) concerning the absolutely continuous spectrum of Jacobi matrices with coefficients that obey an ℓ2 bounded variation condition with step q. We prove existence of a.c. spectrum on a smaller set than that specified by the conjecture and prove that our result is optimal.
               
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