# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

August  2019, 39(8): 4841-4861. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2019197

## A random cocycle with non Hölder Lyapunov exponent

 1 Departamento de Matemática and CMAFCIO, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, Edifício C6, Piso 2, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal 2 Departamento de Matemática, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rua Marquês de São Vicente 225, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 22430-060, Brazil 3 Departamento de Matemática, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Avenida Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal

Received  November 2018 Revised  February 2019 Published  May 2019

Fund Project: The first author was supported by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT, Portugal) under the projects: UID/MAT/04561/2013 and PTDC/MAT-PUR/29126/2017. The second author was supported by the CNPq research grant 306369/2017-6 (Brazil), by a research productivity grant from his institution (PUC-Rio) and by the FCT grant PTDC/MAT-PUR/29126/2017. The third author was supported by a grant given by the Calouste Gulbenkien Foundation, under the project Programa Novos Talentos em Matemática da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

We provide an example of a Schrödinger cocycle over a mixing Markov shift for which the integrated density of states has a very weak modulus of continuity, close to the log-Hölder lower bound established by W. Craig and B. Simon in [6]. This model is based upon a classical example due to Y. Kifer [15] of a random Bernoulli cocycle with zero Lyapunov exponents which is not strongly irreducible. It follows that the Lyapunov exponent of a Bernoulli cocycle near this Kifer example cannot be Hölder or weak-Hölder continuous, thus providing a limitation on the modulus of continuity of the Lyapunov exponent of random cocycles.

Citation: Pedro Duarte, Silvius Klein, Manuel Santos. A random cocycle with non Hölder Lyapunov exponent. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems, 2019, 39 (8) : 4841-4861. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2019197
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##### References:
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Pascalâ€™s triangle for the numbers a(n, i)
 $i$ $\cdots$ $-4$ $-3$ $-2$ $-1$ $0$ $+1$ $+2$ $+3$ $+4$ $+5$ $\cdots$ $a(1, i)$ $1$ $1$ $a(2, i)$ $1$ $1$ $1$ $1$ $a(3, i)$ $1$ $1$ $2$ $2$ $1$ $1$ $a(4, i)$ $1$ $1$ $3$ $3$ $3$ $3$ $1$ $1$ $a(5, i)$ $1$ $1$ $4$ $4$ $6$ $6$ $4$ $4$ $1$ $1$
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Narayana's cows sequence a(n)
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Quantitative results on the continuity of the LE for $\mathrm{GL}_{2}(\mathbb{R})$ random cocycles with strictly positive LE
 Cocycle class Positive results Negative results Non diagonalizable [17,Théorèmes 1,2], [3,Theorem 1] [20,Appendix 3] Diagonalizable [10,Theorem 1.2], [22,Theorem B]
 Cocycle class Positive results Negative results Non diagonalizable [17,Théorèmes 1,2], [3,Theorem 1] [20,Appendix 3] Diagonalizable [10,Theorem 1.2], [22,Theorem B]
Quantitative results on the continuity of the LE for $\mathrm{GL}_{2}(\mathbb{R})$ random cocycles with zero LE
 Cocycle class Positive results Negative results Strongly irreducible This paper, Proposition 11 Non strongly irreducible [22 Theorem C] This paper, Theorem 2
 Cocycle class Positive results Negative results Strongly irreducible This paper, Proposition 11 Non strongly irreducible [22 Theorem C] This paper, Theorem 2
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