Uniformly hyperbolic finite-valued SL(2, R)-cocycles

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Abstract: We consider finite families of SL(2,R) matrices whose products display uniform exponential growth. These form open subsets of (SL(2,R))^N, and we study their components, boundary, and complement. We also consider the more general situation where the allowed products of matrices satisfy a Markovian rule.


From the authors' introduction: We consider \(\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb R)\)-valued cocycles over chaotic base dynamics from the point of view of uniform hyperbolicity. More precisely, \(N\) will be an integer bigger than 1, and the base \(X=\Sigma\subset N^{\mathbb Z}\) will be a transitive subshift of finite type (also called topological Markov chain), equipped with the shift map \(\sigma :\Sigma\to\Sigma\). We will only consider cocycles defined by a map \(A:\Sigma\to \mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb R)\) depending only on the letter in positon zero. The parameter space will be therefore the product \((\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb R))^N\). The parameters \((A_1,\dots ,A_N)\) which correspond to a uniformly hyperbolic cocycle form an open set \(\mathcal H\) which is the object of our study: we would like to describe its boundary, its connected components, and its complement. Roughly speaking, we will see that this goal is attained for the full shift on two symbols, and that new phenomena appear with at least 3 symbols which make such a complete description much more difficult and complicated.




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