A Palindromic half-line criterion for absence of eigenvalues and applications to substitution Hamiltonians

Annales Henri Poincare

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 927-939

  Damanik, D D ^a   Ghez, J M ^b   Raymond, L ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULON   (France)

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EID: 0035648441     PISSN: 14240637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00023-001-8599-9     Document Type: Article

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