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Conditioned local limit theorems for products of positive random matrices

Probability 2025-07-11 v2

Abstract

Let (gn)n1(g_{n})_{n\geq 1} be a sequence of independent and identically distributed positive random d×dd\times d matrices, where d2d\geq 2 is an integer. For any starting point xR+dx \in \mathbb{R}_+^d with x=1|x| = 1 and yRy \in \mathbb R, we define the exit time τx,y=inf{k1:y+loggkg1x<0}\tau_{x, y} = \inf \{ k \geq 1: y + \log |g_k \cdots g_1 x| < 0 \}. In this paper, we investigate the conditioned local probability P(y+loggng1xz+[0,Δ],τx,y>n)\mathbb{P} (y + \log |g_n \cdots g_1 x| \in z + [0, \Delta], \tau_{x, y} > n) under various assumptions on yy, zz and Δ\Delta. For the case where z=O(n)z = O(\sqrt{n}), we establish an exact asymptotic result as nn \to \infty, uniformly in yy and Δ\Delta, which extends the classical Caravenna conditioned local limit theorem to the case of products of positive random matrices. Our proof does not rely on the reversibility techniques. Furthermore, for arbitrary zR+z \in \mathbb R_+, we deduce a uniform upper bound with rate n3/2n^{-3/2}.

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@article{arxiv.2310.07565,
  title  = {Conditioned local limit theorems for products of positive random matrices},
  author = {Ion Grama and Hui Xiao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.07565},
  year   = {2025}
}

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33 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2110.05123