Easy estimates of Lyapunov exponents for random products of matrices

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Main Authors: Nabahi, Nadya, Shpilrain, Vladimir
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author Nabahi, Nadya
Shpilrain, Vladimir
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Shpilrain, Vladimir
contents The problems that we consider in this paper are as follows. Let $A_1, \ldots, A_k$ be square matrices (over reals). Let $W=w(A_1, \ldots, A_k)$ be a random product of $n$ matrices. What is the expected absolute value of the largest (in the absolute value) entry in such a random product? What is the (maximal) Lyapunov exponent for a random matrix product like that? We give an answer to the first question under some mild restrictions on the entries of $A_i$. For the second question, we offer a very simple and efficient method to produce an upper bound on the Lyapunov exponent.
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spellingShingle Easy estimates of Lyapunov exponents for random products of matrices
Nabahi, Nadya
Shpilrain, Vladimir
Group Theory
Dynamical Systems
The problems that we consider in this paper are as follows. Let $A_1, \ldots, A_k$ be square matrices (over reals). Let $W=w(A_1, \ldots, A_k)$ be a random product of $n$ matrices. What is the expected absolute value of the largest (in the absolute value) entry in such a random product? What is the (maximal) Lyapunov exponent for a random matrix product like that? We give an answer to the first question under some mild restrictions on the entries of $A_i$. For the second question, we offer a very simple and efficient method to produce an upper bound on the Lyapunov exponent.
title Easy estimates of Lyapunov exponents for random products of matrices
topic Group Theory
Dynamical Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18944