Shadowing in linear skew products

Abstract

We consider a linear skew product with the full shift in the base and nonzero Lyapunov exponent in the fiber. We provide a sharp estimate for the precision of shadowing for a typical pseudotrajectory of finite length. This result indicates that the high-dimensional analog of Hammel-Yorke-Grebogi's conjecture concerning the interval of shadowability for a typical pseudotrajectory is not correct. The main technique is reduction of the shadowing problem to the ruin problem for a simple random walk.