Measurable rigidity of the cohomological equation for linear cocycles over hyperbolic systems

Clark Butler

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Abstract

We show that any measurable solution of the cohomological equation for a Hölder linear cocycle over a hyperbolic system coincides almost everywhere with a Hölder solution. More generally, we show that every measurable invariant conformal structure for a Hölder linear cocycle over a hyperbolic system coincides almost everywhere with a continuous invariant conformal structure. We also use the main theorem to show that a linear cocycle is conformal if none of its iterates preserve a measurable family of proper subspaces of Rd. We use this to characterize closed negatively curved Riemannian manifolds of constant negative curvature by irreducibility of the action of the geodesic flow on the unstable bundle.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)27-61
Number of pages35
JournalIsrael Journal of Mathematics
Volume227
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 1 2018

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Mathematics

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