Explicit examples of arbitrarily large analytic ergodic potentials with zero Lyapunov exponent

Geometric and Functional Analysis

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1183-1200

  Bjerklöv, Kristian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lyapunov exponents; Quasi periodic; Reducibility; Schrodinger operators

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846813651     PISSN: 1016443X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00039-006-0581-8     Document Type: Article

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