Lyapunov exponents and stability properties of higher rank representations

Abstract

Generalizing results of Deroin-Dujardin, we introduce the notion of proximal stability for a holomorphic family $ (\rho_{\lambda}) $ of representations $ \Gamma \to \text{SL}(d, \mathbb{C}) $, where $ \Gamma $ is a finitely generated group, and show that it is equivalent to the pluriharmonicity of Lyapunov exponents of the family (defined using random walks).