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On the distribution of the angle between Oseledets spaces

Dynamical Systems 2025-12-02 v2

Abstract

We study the distribution of the angles between Oseledets subspaces and their log-integrability, focusing on dimension 22. For random i.i.d. products of matrices, we construct examples of probability measures on GL2(R)\mathrm{GL}_2(\mathbb{R}) with finite first moment where the Oseledets angle is not log-integrable. We also show that for probability measures with finite second moment the angle is always log-integrable. We then consider general measurable GL2(R)\mathrm{GL}_2(\mathbb{R})-cocycles over an arbitrary ergodic automorphism of a non-atomic Lebesgue space, proving that no integrability condition on the matrix distribution ensures log-integrability of the angle. In fact, the joint distribution of the Oseledets spaces can be chosen arbitrarily. A similar flexibility result for bounded cocycles holds under an unavoidable technical restriction.

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@article{arxiv.2503.04612,
  title  = {On the distribution of the angle between Oseledets spaces},
  author = {Jairo Bochi and Pablo Lessa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.04612},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

19 pages. Final version, to appear in Annales Henri Lebesgue