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Measure rigidity for random dynamics on surfaces with positive entropy

Given a surface $M$ and a Borel probability measure $ν$ on the group of $C^2$-diffeomorphisms of $M$, we study $ν$-stationary probability measures on $M$. Assuming the positivity of a certain entropy, the following dichotomy is proved: either the stable distributions for the random dynamics is non-random, or the measure is SRB. In the case that $ν$-a.e. diffeomorphism preserves a common smooth measure $m$, we show that for any positive-entropy stationary measure $μ$, either there exists a $ν$-almost surely invariant $μ$-measurable line field (corresponding do the stable distributions for almost every random composition) or the measure $μ$ is $ν$-almost surely invariant and coincides with an ergodic component of $m$. To prove the above result, we introduce a skew product with surface fibers over a measure preserving transformation equipped with an increasing sub-$σ$-algebra $\hat F$. Given an invariant measure $μ$ for the skew product, and assuming the $\hat F$-measurability of the `past dynamics' and the fiber-wise conditional measures, we prove a dichotomy: either the fiber-wise stable distributions are measurable with respect to a related increasing sub-$σ$-algebra, or the measure $μ$ is fiber-wise SRB.