Spectral Gaps of Almost Mathieu Operator in Exponential Regime

Abstract

For almost Mathieu operator $(H_{λ,α,θ}u)_n=u_{n+1}+u_{n-1}+2λ\cos2π(θ+nα)u_n$, the dry version of Ten Martini problem predicts that the spectrum $Σ_{λ,α}$ of $ H_{λ,α,θ}$ has all gaps open for all $λ\neq 0$ and $ α\in \mathbb{R}\backslash \mathbb{Q}$. Avila and Jitomirskaya prove that $Σ_{λ,α}$ has all gaps open for Diophantine $α$ and $0<|λ|<1$. In the present paper, we show that $Σ_{λ,α}$ has all gaps open for all $ α\in \mathbb{R}\backslash \mathbb{Q}$ with small $λ$.