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Products of Random Matrices

A. D. Jackson, B. Lautrup, P. Johansen, M. Nielsen

physics.data-anarXiv:physics/0202037

Abstract

We derive analytic expressions for infinite products of random 2x2 matrices. The determinant of the target matrix is log-normally distributed, whereas the remainder is a surprisingly complicated function of a parameter characterizing the norm of the matrix and a parameter characterizing its skewness. The distribution may have importance as an uncommitted prior in statistical image analysis.

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