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Dominated splittings and periodic data for quasi-compact operator cocycles

Dynamical Systems 2025-09-30 v1

Abstract

For infinite-dimensional quasi-compact cocycles over a map satisfying a certain closing condition, we show that periodic orbits carry enough information to guarantee the existence of a dominated splitting. More precisely, we establish that if the moduli of the (k+1)(k+1)-largest eigenvalues of the cocycle are eλ1neλ2neλkneλk+1ne^{\lambda_1n}\geq e^{\lambda_2n}\geq \ldots\geq e^{\lambda_kn}\geq e^{\lambda_{k+1}n} at every periodic point of period nn, and λk>λk+1\lambda_k>\lambda_{k+1}, then the cocycle admits a dominated splitting of index kk. As a consequence, if λk>0>λk+1\lambda_k>0>\lambda_{k+1} then the cocycle is uniformly hyperbolic. Furthermore, we are able to obtain these same conclusions even when the eigenvalues are only close to constant, not strictly constant.

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@article{arxiv.2509.24822,
  title  = {Dominated splittings and periodic data for quasi-compact operator cocycles},
  author = {Lucas Backes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.24822},
  year   = {2025}
}

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