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Matrix random products with singular harmonic measure

Probability 2008-07-08 v1

Abstract

Any Zariski dense countable subgroup of SL(d,R)SL(d,R) is shown to carry a non-degenerate finitely supported symmetric random walk such that its harmonic measure on the flag space is singular. The main ingredients of the proof are: (1) a new upper estimate for the Hausdorff dimension of the projections of the harmonic measure onto Grassmannians in RdR^d in terms of the associated differential entropies and differences between the Lyapunov exponents; (2) an explicit construction of random walks with uniformly bounded entropy and Lyapunov exponents going to infinity.

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@article{arxiv.0807.1015,
  title  = {Matrix random products with singular harmonic measure},
  author = {Vadim A. Kaimanovich and Vincent Le Prince},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.1015},
  year   = {2008}
}
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