%0 Journal Article %T Codes and Noncommutative Stochastic Matrices %A Sylvain Lavall¨Ĥe %A Christophe Reutenauer %A Vladimir Retakh %A Dominique Perrin %J Mathematics %D 2008 %I arXiv %X Given a matrix over a skew field fixing the column (1,...,1)^t, we give formulas for a row vector fixed by this matrix. The same techniques are applied to give noncommutative extensions of probabilistic properties of codes. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0808.4100v1