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Singular analytic linear cocycles with negative infinite Lyapunov exponents

Dynamical Systems 2018-03-14 v2

Abstract

We show that linear analytic cocycles where all Lyapunov exponents are negative infinite are nilpotent. For such one-frequency cocycles we show that they can be analytically conjugated to an upper triangular cocycle or a Jordan normal form. As a consequence, an arbitrarily small analytic perturbation leads to distinct Lyapunov exponents. Moreover, in the one-frequency case where the kk-th Lyapunov exponent is finite and the k+1k+1st negative infinite, we obtain a simple criterion for domination in which case there is a splitting into a nilpotent part and an invertible part.

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@article{arxiv.1601.06118,
  title  = {Singular analytic linear cocycles with negative infinite Lyapunov exponents},
  author = {Christian Sadel and Disheng Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.06118},
  year   = {2018}
}

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16 pages

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