A report on an ergodic dichotomy

Abstract

We establish (some directions) of a Ledrappier correspondence between Hölder cocycles, Patterson-Sullivan measures, etc for word-hyperbolic groups with metric-Anosov Mineyev flow. We then study Patterson-Sullivan measures for $\theta$-Anosov representations over a local field and show that these are parametrized by the $\theta$-critical hypersurface of the representation. We use these Patterson-Sullivan measures to establish a dichotomy concerning directions in the interior of the $\theta$-limit cone of the representation in question: if $u$ is such a half-line, then the subset of $u$-conical limit points has either total-mass if $|\theta |\le 2$ or zero-mass if $|\theta |\ge 4.$ The case $|\theta |=3$ remains unsettled.

arXiv commentsome modifications, 50 pages