Mobility Edge for the Anderson Model on the Bethe Lattice

Abstract

We pinpoint the spectral decomposition for the Anderson tight-binding model with an unbounded random potential on the Bethe lattice of sufficiently large degree. We prove that there exist a finite number of mobility edges separating intervals of pure-point spectrum from intervals of absolutely continuous spectrum, confirming a prediction of Abou-Chacra, Thouless, and Anderson. A central component of our proof is a monotonicity result for the leading eigenvalue of a certain transfer operator, which governs the decay rate of fractional moments for the tight-binding model's off-diagonal resolvent entries.