Lyapunov exponents of linear cocycles. Continuity via large deviations

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Abstract: We derive large deviations type (LDT) estimates for linear cocycles over an ergodic multifrequency torus translation. These models are called quasi-periodic cocycles. We make the following assumptions on the model: the translation vector satisfies a generic Diophantine condition, and the fiber action is given by a matrix valued analytic function of several variables which is not identically singular. The LDT estimates obtained here depend on some uniform measurements on the cocycle. Our general results derived in [9] regarding the continuity properties of the Lyapunov exponents (LE) and of the Oseledets filtration and decompositions are then applicable, and we obtain local weak-Holder continuity of these quantities in the presence of gaps in the Lyapunov spectrum. The main new feature of this work is allowing a cocycle depending on several variables to have singularities, i.e. points of non invertibility. This requires a careful analysis of the set of zeros of certain analytic functions of several variables and of the singularities (i.e. negative infinity values) of pluri-subharmonic functions related to the iterates of the cocycle. A refinement of this method in the one variable case leads to a stronger LDT estimate and in turn to a stronger, nearly-Holder modulus of continuity of the LE, Oseledets filtration and Oseledets decomposition. This is a draft of a chapter in our forthcoming research monograph [9].


The monograph displays a general method to prove the continuity of the Lyapunov exponent of linear cocycles. This method can be thought of as the generalization of the work of \textit{M. Goldstein} and \textit{W. Schlag} [Ann. Math. (2) 154, No. 1, 155--203 (2001; Zbl 0990.39014)] who prove the continuity of the Lyapunov exponent for the one-parameter Schrödinger cocycles. Here, the approach works via Grassmann manifolds and Oseledets decomposition from where one constructs an inductive programme. Large deviations, for random cocycles and for quasi-periodic cocycles, are used to measure the deviation of a function from its expected value.




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