Using subspace theory together with appropriate smoothness and decay conditions, we calculated the deficiency indices and absolutely continuous spectrum of fourth order difference equations with unbounded coefficients. In particular, we found the absolutely continuous spectrum to be \documentclass{article}\usepackage{amssymb}\begin{document}\pagestyle{empty}${\mathbb {R}}$\end{document} with a spectral multiplicity one.
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