Continuity, positivity and simplicity of the Lyapunov exponents for quasi-periodic cocycles (Q2002835)

The main result of the paper is a uniform large deviation estimate for the iterates of analytic quasi-periodic cocycle with simple top Lyapunov exponent. The uniformity means that the rate function is stable under small perturbations of the cocycle. The authors establish first a nonuniform large deviation estimate for any given identically singular cocycle, by reduction to a maximal-rank cocycle. Then using a quantitative version of Birkhoff's ergodic theorem for separately subharmonic functions and induction, the main result is obtained. The authors also consider such properties of Lyapunov exponents as continuity, positivity and simplicity. The proofs are based on a previous work of the authors [Lyapunov exponents of linear cocycles. Continuity via large deviations. Amsterdam: Atlantis Press (2016; Zbl 1364.37001)]. As an application of the main statements the authors discuss block Jacobi operators (generalizations of the one-dimensional lattice Schrödinger operator).