Density of non-zero exponent of contraction for pinching cocycles on Hom(S^1)

Abstract

We consider pinching cocycles taking values in the space of homeomorphisms of the circle over an hyperbolic base. Using the Invariance Principle of Malicet, we prove that the cocycles having non-zero exponents of contraction are dense. In this article we generalize some common notions an results known of linear cocycles and cocycles of diffeomorphisms, to the non-linear non-differentiable case.