ETH Zurich, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland (on leave from CNRS, UMR 128, ENS Lyon, France) ; Department of Mathematics, Queens College, The City University of New York, Flushing, New York 11367-1597 ; ETH Zurich, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Abstract:
We obtain a formula for the essential spectral radius of transfer-type operators associated with families of diffeomorphisms of the line and Zygmund, or Hölder, weights acting on Banach spaces of Zygmund (respectively Hölder) functions. In the uniformly contracting case the essential spectral radius is strictly smaller than the spectral radius when the weights are positive.