Hyperbolicity and integral expression of the Lyapunov exponents for linear cocycles

Abstract: Consider in this paper a linear skew-product system where or , and is a topological dynamical system on a compact metrizable space W, and where satisfies the cocycle condition based on θ and is continuously differentiable in t if . We show that ‘semi λ-exponential dichotomy’ of implies ‘λ-exponential dichotomy.’ Precisely, if Θ has no Lyapunov exponent λ and is almost uniformly λ-contracting along the λ-stable direction and if is constant a.e., then Θ is almost λ-exponentially dichotomous. To prove this, we first use Liao''s spectrum theorem, which gives integral expression of the Lyapunov exponents, and then use the semi-uniform ergodic theorem by Sturman and Stark, which allows one to derive uniform estimates from nonuniform ones. As a consequence, we obtain the open-and-dense hyperbolicity of eventual -cocycles based on a uniquely ergodic endomorphism, and of -cocycles based on a uniquely ergodic equi-continuous endomorphism, respectively. On the other hand, in the sense of -topology we obtain the density of -cocycles having positive Lyapunov exponent based on a minimal subshift satisfying the Boshernitzan condition. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]