Cocycles measurably conjugate to unipotent over hyperbolic systems

Abstract

We show that if a H\"{o}lder continuous linear cocycle over a hyperbolic system is measurably conjugate to a cocycle taking values in a unipotent group, then the cocycle is H\"older continuously conjugate to a cocycle taking values in a unipotent group. More generally, we introduce some natural classes of matrices contained in ${\rm GL}(d,\mathbb{R})$, which we call Zimmer blocks. Examples of Zimmer blocks are unipotent and compact subgroups. We show that the same conclusion holds for Zimmer blocks.