Speaker: 

Michael Cranston

Institution: 

UCI

Time: 

Tuesday, October 21, 2014 - 11:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

RH 306

In this talk we address a question posed several years ago by G. Zaslovski: what is the effect of heavy tails of one-dimensional random potentials on the standard objects of localization theory: Lyapunov exponents, density of states, statistics of eigenvalues, etc. Professor G. Zaslovski always expressed a special interest in the models of chaos containing strong fluctuations, e.g. L ́evy flights? We’ll consider several models of potentials constructed by the use of iid random variables which belong to the domain of attraction of the stable distribution with parameter α < 1. This is a report on joint work with S. Molchanov.