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The asymptotic behavior of ‖X n X n −1…X 1υ‖ is studied for independent matrix-valued random variablesX n . The main tool is the use of auxiliary measures in projective space and the study of markov processes on projective space.
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Furstenberg, H., Kifer, Y. Random matrix products and measures on projective spaces. Israel J. Math. 46, 12–32 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02760620
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