Some characterizations of domination

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Abstract: We show that a cocycle has a dominated splitting if and only if there is a uniform exponential gap between singular values of its iterates. Then we consider sets Sigma in GL(d,mathbbR) with the property that any cocycle with values in Sigma has a dominated splitting. We characterize these sets in terms of existence of invariant multicones, thus extending a 2-dimensional result by Avila, Bochi, and Yoccoz. We give an example showing how these multicones can fail to have convexity properties.


This paper deals with the notion of dominated splitting of a vector bundle (a weaker notion than the one of uniformly hyperbolic splitting or exponential dichotomy) for vector bundle automorphisms (in the cathegory sense, i.e.\ linear on fibers) that they call cocycles. The purpose of the paper is to provide some characterizations of this notion. In particular, it is shown that a cocycle has a dominated splitting if and only if there is a uniform exponential gap between singular values of its iterates. This theory is applied to the characterization, in terms of so-called invariant multicones, of the families of matrices, \(A=\{A_x\}_{x\in X}\) in \(GL(d,\mathbb{R}^d)\) that are dominated in the sense that the cocycle \((T,A)\) on the vector bundle \(X\times\mathbb{R}^d\), \(X\) a compact Hausdorff space, admits a dominated splitting for any choice of the dynamics \(T\) on \(X\).




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