Characterizing Nonuniform Hyperbolicity by Mather-Type Admissibility

Abstract We consider linear cocycles acting on Banach spaces which satisfy the assumptions of the multiplicative ergodic theorem. A cocycle is nonuniformly hyperbolic if all Lyapunov exponents are non-zero, which is equivalent to the existence of a tempered exponential dichotomy. We provide an equivalent characterization of nonuniform hyperbolicity in terms of a Mather-type admissibility of a pair of weighted function spaces. As an application we give a short proof of the robustness of tempered exponential dichotomies under small linear perturbation.