Large coupling asymptotics for the entropy of quasi-periodic operators
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 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11425-019-1662-8
 
 Large coupling asymptotics for the entropy of quasi-periodic operators Lingrui Ge1 & Jiangong You2,∗ 1Department 2Chern
 
 of Mathematics, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92612, USA; Institute of Mathematics and LPMC, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China Email: [email protected], [email protected] Received September 26, 2019; accepted January 21, 2020
 
 Abstract
 
 In this paper, we give an asymptotic estimate for the entropy, i.e., the sum of all positive Lya-
 
 punov exponents, of the quasi-periodic finite-range operator with a large trigonometric polynomial potential and Diophantine frequency. Keywords MSC(2010)
 
 large coupling asymptotics, entropy, quasi-periodic operator, quantitative almost reducibility 81Q10, 47B39
 
 Citation: Ge L R, You J G. Large coupling asymptotics for the entropy of quasi-periodic operators. Sci China Math, 2020, 63, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11425-019-1662-8
 
 1
 
 Introduction
 
 For given λ ∈ R+ , x ∈ T, θ, α ∈ Tν and the real trigonometric polynomials W (x) =
 
 d ∑
 
 Wk e2πikx
 
 and V (θ) =
 
 ∑
 
 Vk e2πi⟨k,θ⟩ ,
 
 |k|6s
 
 k=−d
 
 we consider the one-dimensional quasi-periodic finite-range operator on ℓ2 (Z) defined as (LW,λV,α,θ u)n =
 
 d ∑
 
 Wk un−k + λV (θ + nα)un ,
 
 n ∈ Z.
 
 (1.1)
 
 k=−d
 
 Usually, θ is called the initial phase, α is called the frequency, λ is called the coupling constant and V (θ) is called the potential. The eigenvalue equations LW,λV,α,θ u = Eu * Corresponding author c Science China Press and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020 ⃝
 
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 λV of (1.1) are equivalent to the 2d-dimensional cocycles (α, SE,W ) ∈ C ω (Tν , GL(2d, C))1) , where
 
  λV SE,W (θ)
 
 1 = Wd
 
 −Wd−1 · · · −W1 E − W0 − λV (θ) −W−1 · · · −W−d+1 −W−d
 
   Wd    
 
 ..
 
 .
 
     .  
 
 Wd Let λV (SE,W )n (θ)
 
 Let
 
 =
 
 { λV λV λV SE,W (θ + (n − 1)α) · · · SE,W (θ + α)SE,W (θ), λV )−n (θ ((SE,W
 
 + nα))
 
 1 n→∞ n
 
 λV Ld (α, SE,W ) = lim
 
 −1
 
 n > 0, n 6 −1.
 
 ,
 
 ∫ Tν
 
 λV ln ∥Λd (SE,W )n (θ)∥dθ,
 
 λV where Λd denotes the d-th exterior product. Ld (α, SE,W ) is in fact the sum of all non-negative Lyapunov λV 2) λV λV exponents of (α, SE,W ). We call Ld (α, SE,W ) the entropy of the operator (1.1). In the case d = 1, SE,W λV λV is actually a 2 × 2 matrix and L1 (α, SE,W ) is in fact the non-negative Lyapunov exponent of (α, SE,W ). λV In this paper, we are interested in the asymptotic estimate of Ld (α, SE,W ) when the coupling constant λ tends to the infinity. λV For fixed E, α, W, V , capturing the behavior of Ld (α, SE,W ) for large coupling constant λ has been richly studied. Notice that (1.1) reduces to the famous almost Mathieu operator if ν = 1 and V, W are 2λ cos equal to 2 cos 2π(·). Its eigenvalue equation is equivalent to (α, SE,2 cos ). The pioneer work was due to Herman [18] who proved that 2λ cos L1 (α, SE,2 cos ) > ln λ
 
 for λ > 13) . Later, Sorets and Spencer [23] proved that λV L1 (α, SE,2 cos ) >
 
 1 ln λ 2
 
 for any real analytic potential V , i.e		
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