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Positive Lyapunov exponents for a dense set of bounded measurable SL(2, ℝ)-cocycles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2008

Oliver Knill
Affiliation:
Mathematikdepartement, ETH Zentrum, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland

Abstract

Let T be an aperiodic automorphism of a standard probability space (X, m). We prove, that the set

is dense in L(X, SL(2, ℝ)).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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