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Almost reduction and perturbation of matrix cocycles

Dynamical Systems 2015-06-12 v2

Abstract

In this note, we show that if all Lyapunov exponents of a matrix cocycle vanish, then it can be perturbed to become cohomologous to a cocycle taking values in the orthogonal group. This extends a result of Avila, Bochi and Damanik to general base dynamics and arbitrary dimension. We actually prove a fibered version of this result, and apply it to study the existence of dominated splittings into conformal subbundles of general matrix cocycles.

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@article{arxiv.1301.5464,
  title  = {Almost reduction and perturbation of matrix cocycles},
  author = {Jairo Bochi and Andrés Navas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.5464},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

10 pages, no figures. A few corrections were made in this version