Linear response for random systems with a cusp

Abstract

We study i.i.d.\ random compositions of cusp tent-like interval maps having a common cusp point and a common cusp value. For cusp exponents $-1<\beta<-\frac12$, we prove that the associated annealed transfer operators have a spectral gap on $W^{1,1}(I)$ and $W^{2,1}(I)$. For all sufficiently small perturbations of the probability law, there is a stationary density $h_\varepsilon\in W^{2,1}(I)$, unique among stationary densities belonging to $W^{1,1}(I)$. Moreover, the map $\varepsilon\mapsto h_\varepsilon$ is differentiable at $\varepsilon=0$ in $W^{1,1}(I)$, and we obtain an explicit linear response formula.