Full-measure conjecture for dominant products of matrix families

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Let A={A1,,Am}{\cal{A}}=\{A_1,\ldots,A_m\} be a family of mm real d×dd\times d matrices, and let Qm{\cal{Q}}_m denote the space of all such families, identified with Rmd2{\mathbb R}^{m d^2}. A product is dominant if, after normalizing the family so that its joint spectral radius is 11, there exists q<1q<1 such that every product not corresponding to a power of the dominant word or one of its cyclic permutations has spectral radius less than qq. The leading eigenvalue is unique and simple when it is the only leading eigenvalue and has algebraic multiplicity one, with the complex case understood up to the conjugate pair. Full-measure conjecture. The set of families AQm{\cal{A}}\in{\cal{Q}}_m that possess dominant products with a unique and simple leading eigenvalue is of full Lebesgue measure in Qm{\cal{Q}}_m. This would strengthen the known result that the set of such families is open and the genericity expectation that dominant products occur for almost every matrix family; the source gives no resolution of the full-measure assertion.

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Vladimir Y. Protasov and Raphael M. Jungers, “Resonance and marginal instability of switching systems”, arXiv:1411.0497 (2014).

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