Mathematics Symposium

Mark Pollicott

(University of Warwick)

"Random matrix products and absolute continuity of the stationary measure"


Date: Sat, November 28, 2009
Time: 15:30
Place: Haus der Wissenschaft, Bremen

Abstract: The growth in norm of typical products of a finite number of (positive) matrices is determined by the Lyapunov exponent and is described by a stationary measure on the associated projective space. We investigate when this measure is absolutely continuous. This is joint work with B. Barany and K. Simon.