Speaker: 

Vinod Sastry

Institution: 

UC Irvine

Time: 

Friday, June 4, 2010 - 2:00pm

Location: 

RH 440R

We consider the one-dimensional Schrodinger operator with potential given by Period Doubling and Thue-Morse sequences. We describe the results of Bellisard et al. in which the spectrum of these operators are obtained through the trace map associated to this operator. We see that the spectrum for non-zero values of the potential is a Cantor set of zero Lebesque measure, and give explicit description of the spectral gaps.