The spectral gap for transfer operators of torus extensions over expanding maps

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Abstract: We study the spectral gap for transfer operators of the skew product F:mathbbTdimesmathbbTellomathbbTdimesmathbbTell given by F(x,y)=(Tx,y+au(x)pmodmathbbZell), where T:mathbbTdomathbbTd is a Cinfty uniformly expanding endomorphism, and the fiber map au:mathbbTdomathbbRell is a Cinfty map. We construct a Hilbert space mathcalWs for any s<0, which contains all the H"older functions of H"older exponents |s| on mathbbTdimesmathbbTell. Applying the method of semiclassical analysis, we obtain the dichotomy: either the transfer operator has a spectral gap on mathcalWs, or au is an essential coboundary. In the former case, F mixes exponentially fast for H"older observables with H"older exponents |s|; and in the latter case, either F is not weak mixing and it is semiconjugate to a circle rotation, or F is unstably mixing, i.e., it can be approximated by non-mixing skew products.



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