Necessary and sufficient conditions for convergence in distribution of products of i.i.d. d× d random circulant matrices are established here. The important role played by matrices in SO(d) is pointed out, and the validity of this result is shown to also hold for a class of Toeplitz matrices.
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Cureg, E., Mukherjea, A. Weak Convergence in Circulant Matrices. J Theor Probab 18, 983–1007 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10959-005-7542-2
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