Extended States on the Bethe Lattice Revisited
Abstract
We give a short proof of the classical weak-disorder result that the Anderson model on the Bethe lattice has purely absolutely continuous spectrum on compact intervals in the interior of the free spectrum. This note continues [6], where we gave a minimal proof of the existence of a nontrivial absolutely continuous component using the cyclicity criterion of [8]. There, Hellinger overlap yields the required non-cyclicity. Here, a stability argument for the forward Green function, followed by the zero--one law for the tree recursion, yields positivity of its boundary imaginary part. This positivity already gives absolutely continuous spectrum throughout the interval; the structural result of [7] excludes singular spectrum and yields purity. We also observe that the same structural argument shortens the final passage from boundary positivity to purity in the recent OpenAI preprint on the weak-disorder Anderson model on zzd, d≥3 [10].
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BibTeX
@misc{jaksic2026extended,
title = {{Extended States on the Bethe Lattice Revisited}},
author = {Vojkan Jaksic and Yoram Last},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.11611},
eprint = {2610.11611},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11611},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Extended States on the Bethe Lattice Revisited
AU - Vojkan Jaksic
AU - Yoram Last
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/08
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.11611
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11611
AB - We give a short proof of the classical weak-disorder result that the Anderson model on the Bethe lattice has purely absolutely continuous spectrum on compact intervals in the interior of the free spectrum. This note continues [6], where we gave a minimal proof of the existence of a nontrivial absolutely continuous component using the cyclicity criterion of [8]. There, Hellinger overlap yields the required non-cyclicity. Here, a stability argument for the forward Green function, followed by the zero--one law for the tree recursion, yields positivity of its boundary imaginary part. This positivity already gives absolutely continuous spectrum throughout the interval; the structural result of [7] excludes singular spectrum and yields purity. We also observe that the same structural argument shortens the final passage from boundary positivity to purity in the recent OpenAI preprint on the weak-disorder Anderson model on zz^d, d≥3 [10].
ER -