Measure rigidity for random dynamics on surfaces and related skew products

Abstract

Given a surface M M and a Borel probability measure ν \nu on the group of C 2 C^2 -diffeomorphisms of M M we study ν \nu -stationary probability measures on M M . We prove for hyperbolic stationary measures the following trichotomy: the stable distributions are non-random, the measure is SRB, or the measure is supported on a finite set and is hence almost-surely invariant. In the proof of the above results, we study skew products with surface fibers over a measure-preserving transformation equipped with a decreasing sub- σ \sigma -algebra F ^ \hat {\mathcal F} and derive a related result. A number of applications of our main theorem are presented.