{ "id": "1411.0423", "version": "v1", "published": "2014-11-03T10:52:28.000Z", "updated": "2014-11-03T10:52:28.000Z", "title": "Conditional limit theorems for products of random matrices", "authors": [ "Ion Grama", "Emile Le Page", "Marc Peigné" ], "categories": [ "math.PR" ], "abstract": "Consider the product $G_{n}=g_{n} ... g_{1}$ of the random matrices $g_{1},...,g_{n}$ in $GL(d,\\mathbb{R}) $ and the random process $ G_{n}v=g_{n}... g_{1}v$ in $\\mathbb{R}^{d}$ starting at point $v\\in \\mathbb{R}^{d}\\smallsetminus \\{0\\} .$ It is well known that under appropriate assumptions, the sequence $(\\log \\Vert G_{n}v\\Vert)_{n\\geq 1}$ behaves like a sum of i.i.d.\\ r.v.'s and satisfies standard classical properties such as the law of large numbers, law of iterated logarithm and the central limit theorem. Denote by $\\mathbb{B}$ the closed unit ball in $\\mathbb{R}^{d}$ and by $\\mathbb{B}^{c}$ its complement. For any $v\\in \\mathbb{B}^{c}$ define the exit time of the random process $G_{n}v$ from $\\mathbb{B}^{c}$ by $\\tau_{v}=\\min \\{n\\geq 1:G_{n}v\\in \\mathbb{B}\\} .$ We establish the asymptotic as $narrow \\infty $ of the probability of the event $\\{\\tau_{v}>n\\} $ and find the limit law for the quantity $\\frac{1}{\\sqrt{n}} \\log \\Vert G_{n}v\\Vert $ conditioned that $\\tau_{v}>n.$", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2014-11-03T10:52:28.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "60B20", "60J05", "60J45", "37A50" ], "keywords": [ "conditional limit theorems", "random matrices", "random process", "central limit theorem", "satisfies standard classical properties" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2014arXiv1411.0423G" } } }