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Lyapunov exponents of orthogonal-plus-normal cocycles

Dynamical Systems 2023-09-18 v1

Abstract

We consider products of matrices of the form An=On+ϵNnA_n=O_n+\epsilon N_n where OnO_n is a sequence of d×dd\times d orthogonal matrices and NnN_n has independent standard normal entries and the (Nn)(N_n) are mutually independent. We study the Lyapunov exponents of the cocycle as a function of ϵ\epsilon, giving an exact expression for the jjth Lyapunov exponent in terms of the Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization of I+ϵNI+\epsilon N. Further, we study the asymptotics of these exponents, showing that λj=(d2j)ϵ2/2+O(ϵ4logϵ4)\lambda_j=(d-2j)\epsilon^2/2+O(\epsilon^4|\log\epsilon|^4).

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@article{arxiv.2309.08193,
  title  = {Lyapunov exponents of orthogonal-plus-normal cocycles},
  author = {Sam Bednarski and Anthony Quas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.08193},
  year   = {2023}
}