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Conditioned limit theorems for products of random matrices

Probability 2024-12-23 v7

Abstract

Consider the product Gn=gn...g1G_{n}=g_{n} ... g_{1} of the random matrices g1,...,gng_{1},...,g_{n} in GL(d,R)GL(d,\mathbb{R}) and the random process Gnv=gn...g1v G_{n}v=g_{n}... g_{1}v in Rd\mathbb{R}^{d} starting at point vRd{0}.v\in \mathbb{R}^{d}\smallsetminus \{0\} . It is well known that under appropriate assumptions, the sequence (logGnv)n1(\log \Vert G_{n}v\Vert)_{n\geq 1} behaves like a sum of i.i.d.\ r.v.'s and satisfies standard classical properties such as the law of large numbers, law of iterated logarithm and the central limit theorem. Denote by B\mathbb{B} the closed unit ball in Rd\mathbb{R}^{d} and by Bc\mathbb{B}^{c} its complement. For any vBcv\in \mathbb{B}^{c} define the exit time of the random process GnvG_{n}v from Bc\mathbb{B}^{c} by τv=min{n1:GnvB}.\tau_{v}=\min \{n\geq 1:G_{n}v\in \mathbb{B}\} . We establish the asymptotic as nn \to \infty of the probability of the event {τv>n}\{\tau_{v}>n\} and find the limit law for the quantity 1nlogGnv\frac{1}{\sqrt{n}} \log \Vert G_{n}v\Vert conditioned that τv>n.\tau_{v}>n.

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@article{arxiv.1411.0423,
  title  = {Conditioned limit theorems for products of random matrices},
  author = {Ion Grama and Emile Le Page and Marc Peigné},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.0423},
  year   = {2024}
}
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