We provide a very general result that identifies the essential spectrum of
broad classes of operators as exactly equal to the closure of the union of the
spectra of suitable limits at infinity. Included is a new result on the
essential spectra when potentials are asymptotic to isospectral tori. We also
recover with a unified framework the HVZ theorem and Krein's results on
orthogonal polynomials with finite essential spectra.
@article{0503391,
author = {Last, Yoram and Simon, Barry},
title = {The essential spectrum of Schrodinger, Jacobi, and CMV operators},
journal = {arXiv},
volume = {2005},
number = {0},
year = {2005},
language = {en},
url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/0503391}
}
Last, Yoram; Simon, Barry. The essential spectrum of Schrodinger, Jacobi, and CMV operators. arXiv, Tome 2005 (2005) no. 0, . http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/0503391/