Infinite products of random matrices and repeated interaction dynamics

Annales de l'institut Henri Poincare (B) Probability and Statistics

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 442-464

  Bruneau, Laurent ^a   Joye, Alain ^b,c   Merkli, Marco ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CERGY PONTOISE   (France)

^b INSTITUT FOURIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^d MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ergodic theory; Products of random matrices; Random dynamical systems; Random stochastic matrix

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952572019     PISSN: 02460203     EISSN: 02460203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/09-AIHP211     Document Type: Article

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