Berry–Esseen Bounds with Targets and Local Limit Theorems for Products of Random Matrices

Abstract

Let $$\mu $$ be a probability measure on $$\textrm{GL}_d(\mathbb {R})$$ and denote by $$S_n:= g_n \cdots g_1$$ the associated random matrix product, where $$g_j$$ ’s are i.i.d.’s with law $$\mu $$ . We study statistical properties of random variables of the form $$\begin{aligned} \sigma (S_n,x) + u(S_n x), \end{aligned}$$ where $$x \in \mathbb {P}^{d-1}$$ , $$\sigma $$ is the norm cocycle and u belongs to a class of admissible functions on $$\mathbb {P}^{d-1}$$ with values in $$\mathbb {R}\cup \{\pm \infty \}$$ . Assuming that $$\mu $$ has a finite exponential moment and generates a proximal and strongly irreducible semigroup, we obtain optimal Berry–Esseen bounds and the Local Limit Theorem for such variables using a large class of observables on $$\mathbb {R}$$ and Hölder continuous target functions on $$\mathbb {P}^{d-1}$$ . As particular cases, we obtain new limit theorems for $$\sigma (S_n,x)$$ and for the coefficients of $$S_n$$ .