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Semisimplicity of the Lyapunov spectrum for irreducible cocycles

Dynamical Systems 2019-01-09 v4

Abstract

Let GG be a semisimple Lie group acting on a space XX, let μ\mu be a compactly supported measure on GG, and let AA be a strongly irreducible linear cocycle over the action of GG. We then have a random walk on XX, and let TT be the associated shift map. We show that the cocycle AA over the action of TT is conjugate to a block conformal cocycle. This statement is used in the recent paper by Eskin-Mirzakhani on the classifications of invariant measures for the SL(2,R) action on moduli space. The ingredients of the proof are essentially contained in the papers of Guivarch and Raugi and also Goldsheid and Margulis.

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@article{arxiv.1309.0160,
  title  = {Semisimplicity of the Lyapunov spectrum for irreducible cocycles},
  author = {Alex Eskin and Carlos Matheus},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.0160},
  year   = {2019}
}

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27 pages. Final version based on the referee's report. To appear in Israel J. Math