Thermodynamic formalism for hyperbolic random dynamical systems

Abstract

We develop thermodynamic formalism for random Anosov maps and uniformly Hölder random potentials. We assume uniform fibre hyperbolicity given by deterministic invariant cone fields, a one-dimensional stable direction, and a fibrewise mixing condition whose mixing time may depend on the base point. To do so, we construct adapted projective cones for the random Perron--Frobenius cocycle and prove that the cocycle contracts the associated Hilbert projective metrics. This allows us to construct a $\mathbb{P}$-relative equilibrium state, prove its uniqueness, and establish quenched exponential decay of correlations.

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