Computation of Lyapunov exponents of matrix products
Dynamical Systems
2025-01-22 v1 Probability
Abstract
For given square matrices (), one of which is assumed to be of rank , and for a given sequence in , the following limit, if it exists, defines the Lyapunov exponent of the sequence of matrices . It is proved that the Lyapunov exponent has a closed-form expression under certain conditions. One special case arises when 's are non-negative and is generic with respect to some shift-invariant measure; a second special case occurs when 's (for ) are invertible and is a typical point with respect to some shift-ergodic measure. Substitutive sequences and characteristic sequences of -free integers are considered as examples. An application is presented for the computation of multifractal spectrum of weighted Birkhoff averages.
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@article{arxiv.2501.11941,
title = {Computation of Lyapunov exponents of matrix products},
author = {Aihua Fan and Evgeny Verbitskiy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.11941},
year = {2025}
}