arXiv · cond-mat/0206138
Stochastic Instability of Quasi-Isolated Systems
Abstract
The stability of solutions to evolution equations with respect to small stochastic perturbations is considered. The stability of a stochastic dynamical system is characterized by the local stability index. The limit of this index with respect to infinite time describes the asymptotic stability of a stochastic dynamical system. Another limit of the stability index is given by the vanishing intensity of stochastic perturbations. A dynamical system is stochastically unstable when these two limits do not commute with each other. Several examples illustrate the thesis that there always exist such stochastic perturbations which render a given dynamical system stochastically unstable. The stochastic instability of quasi-isolated systems is responsible for the irreversibility of time arrow.
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V. I. Yukalov. 2002-07-02. Stochastic Instability of Quasi-Isolated Systems. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.65.056118
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