Construction of ergodic cocycles that are fundamental solutions to linear systems of a special form (Q2471385)

A skew-product flow is associated to solutions of the time-dependent initial value problems \(X'(t)=A(T_t\omega)X(t)\), where \(\{T_t\}\) is an aperiodic measure-preserving jointly continuous flow on a compact metric space with respect to a Borel probability measure and \(A\) is a continuous map into the Lie algebra of a compact Lie group \(G\), \(X\) is a \(G\)-valued function, and \(X(0)\) is the identity. For those \(A\) taking values in a given closed convex subset, the set of ergodic measures for the skew-product flow is studied. A novel technique is used to determine when this set of ergodic measures is residual, allowing the authors to conclude that ergodicity is typical even inside very thin classes of cocycles (since the range of \(A\) may be a thin subset of the Lie algebra). These results apply to certain systems arising in mathematical physics.