%0 Journal Article %T A generalization of Straube's theorem: existence of absolutely continuous invariant measures for random maps %A Md. Shafiqul Islam %A Pawel G¨®ra %A Abraham Boyarsky %J International Journal of Stochastic Analysis %D 2005 %I Hindawi Publishing Corporation %R 10.1155/jamsa.2005.133 %X A random map is a discrete-time dynamical system in which one of a number of transformations is randomly selected and applied at each iteration of the process. In this paper, we study random maps. The main result provides a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of absolutely continuous invariant measure for a random map with constant probabilities and position-dependent probabilities. %U http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijsa/2005/149479/abs/