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Degenerations of SL(2,C) representations and Lyapunov exponents

Dynamical Systems 2018-03-21 v1 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We study the asymptotic behavior of the Lyapunov exponent in a meromorphic family of random products of matrices in SL(2, C), as the parameter converges to a pole. We show that the blow-up of the Lyapunov exponent is governed by a quantity which can be interpreted as the non-Archimedean Lyapunov exponent of the family. We also describe the limit of the corresponding family of stationary measures on P 1 (C).

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@article{arxiv.1803.07324,
  title  = {Degenerations of SL(2,C) representations and Lyapunov exponents},
  author = {Romain Dujardin and Charles Favre},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.07324},
  year   = {2018}
}