Furstenberg counterexamples over Diophantine rotations

Abstract

We construct cocycles in $\mathbb{T}\times SU(2)$ over Diophantine rotations that are minimal and not uniquely ergodic. Such cocycles are dense in an open subset of cocycles over the fixed Diophantine rotation. By a standard argument, they are dense in the whole set of such cocycles if the rotation satisfies a full-measure arithmetic condition.