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Dynamics of products of nonnegative matrices

Dynamical Systems 2020-12-11 v2

Abstract

The aim of this manuscript is to understand the dynamics of products of nonnegative matrices. We extend a well known consequence of the Perron-Frobenius theorem on the periodic points of a nonnegative matrix to products of finitely many nonnegative matrices associated to a word and later to products of nonnegative matrices associated to a word, possibly of infinite length. We also make use of an appropriate definition of the exponential map and the logarithm map on the positive orthant of Rn\mathbb{R}^{n} and explore the relationship between the periodic points of certain subhomogeneous maps defined through the above functions and the periodic points of matrix products, mentioned above.

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@article{arxiv.2010.05560,
  title  = {Dynamics of products of nonnegative matrices},
  author = {Sachindranath Jayaraman and Yogesh Kumar Prajapaty and Shrihari Sridharan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.05560},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

This version consists of a reorganization of the paper and a few minor mistakes have been corrected