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On $SL(2,\mathbb{R})$-cocycles over irrational rotations with secondary collisions

Dynamical Systems 2023-04-19 v1

Abstract

We consider a skew product FA=(σω,A)F_{A} = (\sigma_{\omega}, A) over irrational rotation σω(x)=x+ω\sigma_{\omega}(x) = x + \omega of a circle T1\mathbb{T}^{1}. It is supposed that the transformation A:T1SL(2,R)A: \mathbb{T}^{1} \to SL(2, \mathbb{R}) being a C1C^{1}-map has the form A(x)=R(φ(x))Z(λ(x))A(x) = R(\varphi(x)) Z(\lambda(x)), where R(φ)R(\varphi) is a rotation in R2\mathbb{R}^{2} over the angle φ\varphi and Z(λ)=diag{λ,λ1}Z(\lambda)= diag\{\lambda, \lambda^{-1}\} is a diagonal matrix. Assuming that λ(x)λ0>1\lambda(x) \ge \lambda_{0} > 1 with a sufficiently large constant λ0\lambda_{0} and the function φ\varphi be such that cosφ(x)\cos \varphi(x) possesses only simple zeroes, we study hyperbolic properties of the cocycle generated by FAF_{A}. We apply the critical set method to show that, under some additional requirements on the derivative of the function φ\varphi, the secondary collisions compensate weakening of the hyperbolicity due to primary collisions and the cocycle generated by FAF_{A} becomes hyperbolic in contrary to the case when secondary collisions can be partially eliminated.

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@article{arxiv.2204.05402,
  title  = {On $SL(2,\mathbb{R})$-cocycles over irrational rotations with secondary collisions},
  author = {Alexey V. Ivanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.05402},
  year   = {2023}
}