On the Kunz-Souillard approach to localization for the discrete one dimensional generalized Anderson model (1608.01379v2)

Abstract: We prove dynamical and spectral localization at all energies for the discrete generalized Anderson model via the Kunz-Souillard approach to localization. This is an extension of the original Kunz-Souillard approach to localization for Schr\"odinger operators, to the case where a single random variable determines the potential on a block of an arbitrary, but fixed, size $\alpha$. For this model, we also give a description of the almost sure spectrum as a set and prove uniform positivity of the Lyapunov exponents. In fact, regarding positivity of the Lyapunov exponents, we prove a stronger statement where we also allow finitely supported distributions. We also show that for any size $\alpha$ {\it generalized Anderson model}, there exists some finitely supported distribution $\nu$ for which the Lyapunov exponent will vanish for at least one energy. Moreover, restricting to the special case $\alpha=1$, we describe a pleasant consequence of this modified technique to the original Kunz-Souillard approach to localization. In particular, we demonstrate that actually the single operator $T_1$ is a strict contraction in $L^2(\mathbb{R})$, whereas before it was only shown that the second iterate of $T_1$ is a strict contraction.