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Hans Koch
Golden mean renormalization
for the almost Mathieu operator and related skew products
(2944K, pdf)
ABSTRACT. Considering SL(2,R) skew-product maps
over circle rotations, we prove that
a renormalization transformation associated with the golden mean alpha
has a nontrivial periodic orbit of length 3.
We also present some numerical results,
including evidence this period 3 describes
scaling properties of the Hofstadter butterfly
near the top of the spectrum at alpha,
and scaling properties of the generalized eigenfunction for this energy.