A convex optimization approach to the Lyapunov exponents

arXiv2307.05400MaRDI QIDQ6443340FDOQ6443340

Publication date: 11 July 2023

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to shed more light on some recent ideas about Lyapunov exponents and clarify the formal structures behind these ideas. In particular, we show that the vector of (averaged) Lyapunov exponents of a smooth measure-preserving dynamical system can be regarded as the solution of a vector-valued optimization problem on a space of Riemannian metrics. This result was first formulated and proved by Jairo Bochi in the language of linear cocycles and their conjugacies. We go a step further and prove that the optimization problem is geodesically convex with respect to the

L^{2}

-metric and derive some consequences of this fact.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems involving smooth mappings and diffeomorphisms (37C05) Smooth ergodic theory, invariant measures for smooth dynamical systems (37C40)

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