It is proved that the Green’s function of the simple random walk on a surface group of large genus decays exponentially at the spectral radius. It is also shown that Ancona’s inequalities extend to the spectral radius R, and therefore that the Martin boundary for R−potentials coincides with the natural geometric boundary S.

Using ergodic theory, in this paper we present a Gel’fand-type spectral radius formula which states that the joint spectral radius is equal to the generalized spectral radius for a matrix multiplicative semigroup S restricted to a subset that need not carry the algebraic structure of S. This generalizes the Berger-Wang formula. Using it as a tool, we study the absolute exponential stability of ...

A characterization of the joint spectral radius, due to Chen and Zhou, relies on the limit superior of the k-th root of the dominant trace over products of matrices of length k. In this note, a sufficient condition is given such that the limit superior takes the form of a limit. This result is useful while estimating the joint spectral radius. Although it applies to a restricted class of matric...