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The spectrum of one-dimensional discrete Schrödinger operators associated to strictly ergodic dynamical systems is shown to coincide with the set of zeros of the Lyapunov exponent if and only if the Lyapunov exponent exists uniformly. This is used to obtain the Cantor spectrum of zero Lebesgue measure for all aperiodic subshifts with uniform positive weights. This covers, in particular, all aperiodic subshifts arising from primitive substitutions including new examples such as e.g. the Rudin–Shapiro substitution.
Our investigation is not based on trace maps. Instead it relies on an Oseledec type theorem due to A. Furman and a uniform ergodic theorem due to the author.
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Received: 3 July 2001 / Accepted: 11 December 2001
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Lenz, D. Singular Spectrum of Lebesgue Measure Zero¶for One-Dimensional Quasicrystals. Commun. Math. Phys. 227, 119–130 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002200200624
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