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On the size of the resonant set for the products of $2\times 2$ matrices

### Jeffrey Allen, Benjamin Seeger and Deborah Unger

Vol. 4 (2011), No. 2, 157–166
##### Abstract

For $\theta \in \left[0,2\pi \right)$ and $\lambda >1$, consider the matrix $h=\left(\genfrac{}{}{0}{}{\lambda }{0}\genfrac{}{}{0}{}{0}{0}\right)$ and the rotation matrix ${R}_{\theta }$. Let ${W}_{n}\left(\theta \right)$ denote some product of $m$ instances of ${R}_{\theta }$ and $n$ of $h$, with the condition $m\le ϵn$ ($0<ϵ<1$). We analyze the measure of the set of $\theta$ for which $\parallel {W}_{n}\left(\theta \right)\parallel \ge {\lambda }^{\delta n}$ ($0<\delta <1$). This can be regarded as a model problem for the Bochi–Fayad conjecture.

##### Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 37H15
Secondary: 37H05, 37C85
##### Milestones
Revised: 17 February 2011
Accepted: 3 April 2011
Published: 17 January 2012

Communicated by Chi-Kwong Li
##### Authors
 Jeffrey Allen University Of Wisconsin – Madison Madison, WI 53706 United States Benjamin Seeger University Of Wisconsin – Madison Madison, WI 53706 United States Deborah Unger University Of Wisconsin – Madison Madison, WI 53715 United States