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Some open sets of nonuniformly hyperbolic cocycles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2008

L.-S. Young
L.-S. Young
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Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
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Abstract

We consider some very simple examples of SL(2, ℝ)-cocycles and prove that they have positive Lyapunov exponents. These cocycles form an open set in the C1 topology.

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Research Article
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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , June 1993 , pp. 409 - 415
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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