Random walks,Kleinian groups,and bifurcation currents

Let (ρ _λ ) _λ∈Λ be a holomorphic family of representations of a finitely generated group G into PSL(2,ℂ), parameterized by a complex manifold Λ. We define a notion of bifurcation current in this context, that is, a positive closed current on Λ describing the bifurcations of this family of representations in a quantitative sense. It is the analogue of the bifurcation current introduced by DeMarco for holomorphic families of rational mappings on ℙ¹. Our definition relies on the theory of random products of matrices, so it depends on the choice of a probability measure μ on G.