Asymptotics of the Perron-Frobenius eigenvalue of nonnegative Hessenberg-Toeplitz matrices

Asymptotic results for the Perron-Frobenius eigenvalue of a nonnegative Hessenberg-Toeplitz matrix as the dimension of the matrix tends to infinity are given. The results are used and interpreted in terms of source entropies in the case where the Hessenberg-Toeplitz matrix arises as the transition matrix of a finite-state machine generating certain constrained sequences of +or-1's.<
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