“…Extended CMV matrices arise as a natural playground for spectral theoretic techniques, as they furnish canonical unitary analogs of Schrödinger operators and Jacobi matrices. Moreover, they are interesting in their own right, since they naturally arise in connection with quantum walks in one dimension [3,6,7,8], the classical Ising model [9,16], and orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle [36,37]. More specifically, given a sequence α = (α n ) n∈Z with α n ∈ D = {z ∈ C : |z| < 1}, the corresponding extended CMV matrix is given by E = LM, where…”