Reflectionless canonical systems: almost periodicity and character-automorphic Fourier transforms

Abstract: This talk describes joint work with Roman Bessonov and Peter Yuditskii. In the spectral theory of self-adjoint and unitary operators in one dimension (such as Schrodinger, Dirac, and Jacobi operators), a half-line operator is encoded by a Weyl function; for whole-line operators, the reflectionless property is a pseudocontinuation relation between the two half-line Weyl functions. We develop the theory of reflectionless canonical systems with an arbitrary Dirichlet-regular Widom spectrum with the Direct Cauchy Theorem property. This generalizes, to an infinite gap setting, the constructions of finite gap quasiperiodic (algebro-geometric) solutions of stationary integrable hierarchies. Instead of theta functions on a compact Riemann surface, the construction is based on reproducing kernels of character-automorphic Hardy spaces in Widom domains with respect to Martin measure. We also construct unitary character-automorphic Fourier transforms which generalize the Paley-Wiener theorem. Finally, we find the correct notion of almost periodicity which holds in general for canonical system parameters in Arov gauge, and we prove generically optimal results for almost periodicity for Potapov-de Branges gauge, and Dirac operators.

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