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Some open sets of nonuniformly hyperbolic cocycles
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 September 2008
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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