TY - JOUR ID - Sahbani2016 LB - Sahbani2016 AU - Sahbani, Jaouad TI - On the spectrum of periodic perturbations of certain unbounded Jacobi operators ST - On the spectrum of periodic perturbations of certain unbounded Jacobi operators JO - Opuscula Math. JA - Opuscula Math. JF - Opuscula Mathematica PY - 2016 VL - 36 IS - 6 SP - 807 EP - 818 DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2016.36.6.807 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2016.36.6.807 AB - It is known that a purely off-diagonal Jacobi operator with coefficients \(a_n=n^{\alpha}\), \(\alpha\in(0,1]\), has a purely absolutely continuous spectrum filling the whole real axis. We show that a 2-periodic perturbation of these operators creates a non trivial gap in the spectrum. KW - essential spectrum KW - spectral gap KW - periodic perturbation SN - 1232-9274 ER -