A counterexample to the reciprocal of Forni criterion about positivity of Lyapunov exponents of the Kontsevich-Zorich cocycle

DOI10.4310/MRL.2015.V22.N6.A6MaRDI QIDQ530618zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Vincent Delecroix, Carlos Matheus

Publication date 10 August 2016

Published in Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.1560

zbMATH Keywords

Kontsevich-Zorich cocycle\(\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb R)\)-invariant probability measureForni criterion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Nonuniformly hyperbolic systems (Lyapunov exponents, Pesin theory, etc.) (37D25) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40)

Abstract: We introduce two square-tiled surfaces, one with $8$ squares inside $Omegamathcal{M}_3(2,2)$, and the other with $9$ squares inside $Omegamathcal{M}_4(3,3)$, respectively. In these examples, the dimensions of the isotropic subspaces (in absolute homology) generated by the waist curves of the maximal cylinders in any fixed rational direction are $2$ and $3$ respectively. Hence, a geometrical criterion of G. Forni for the non-uniform hyperbolicity of Kontsevich-Zorich (KZ) cocycle can not be applied to these examples. Nevertheless, we prove that there are no vanishing exponents and the spectrum is simple for these two square-tiled surfaces. In particular, the non-vanishing of exponents of KZ cocycle for a regular measure doesn't imply that the support of this measure contains a completely periodic surface whose waist curves of maximal cylinders generates a Lagrangian subspace in its absolute homology.

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