“…The relevance of CMV operators, more precisely, half-lattice CMV operators is derived from its intimate relationship with the trigonometric moment problem and hence with finite measures on the unit circle ∂ D. For a detailed account of the relationship of half-lattice CMV operators with orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle we refer to the monumental two-volume treatise by Simon [61] (see also [62], [63]) and the exhaustive bibliography therein. For classical results on orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle we refer, for instance, to [6], [29]- [31], [50], [69]- [71], [74], [75]. More recent references relevant to the spectral theoretic content of this paper are [18], [26]- [28], [39], [40], [43], [52], [59], [60].…”