Almost Sure Asymptotic Stability for Regime-Switching Diffusions

In this paper, we discuss long-time behavior of sample paths for a wide range of regime-switching diffusions. Firstly, almost sure asymptotic stability is concerned (i) for regime-switching diffusions with finite state spaces by the Perron-Frobenius theorem, and, with regard to the case of reversible Markov chain, via the principal eigenvalue approach; (ii) for regime-switching diffusions with countable state spaces by means of a finite partition trick and an M-Matrix theory. We then apply our theory to study the stabilization for linear switching models. Several examples are given to demonstrate our theory.