%0 Journal Article %T The absolutely continuous spectrum of the almost Mathieu operator %A Artur Avila %J Mathematics %D 2008 %I arXiv %X We prove that the spectrum of the almost Mathieu operator is absolutely continuous if and only if the coupling is subcritical. This settles Problem 6 of Barry Simon's list of Schr\"odinger operator problems for the twenty-first century. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.2965v1