Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

We consider a sequence of compositions of orientation preserving diffeomorphisms of the circle chosen randomly with a fixed distribution law. There is naturally associated a Lyapunov exponent, which measures the rate of exponential contractions of the sequence. It is known that under some assumptions, if this Lyapunov exponent is null then all the diffeomorphisms are simultaneously conjugated to rotations. If the Lyapunov exponent is not null but close to 0, we study how well we can approach rotations by a simultaneous conjugation. In particular, our results can apply to random products of matrices 2x2, giving quantitative versions of the classical Furstenberg theorem.