English

Lyapunov exponents for random maps

Dynamical Systems 2022-03-30 v2

Abstract

It has been recently realized that for abundant dynamical systems on a compact manifold, the set of points for which Lyapunov exponents fail to exist, called the Lyapunov irregular set, has positive Lebesgue measure. In the present paper, we show that under any physical noise, the Lyapunov irregular set has zero Lebesgue measure and the number of such Lyapunov exponents is finite. This result is a Lyapunov exponent version of Ara\'{u}jo's theorem on the existence and finitude of time averages. Furthermore, we numerically compute the Lyapunov exponents for a surface flow with an attracting heteroclinic connection, which enjoys the Lyapunov irregular set of positive Lebesgue measure, under a physical noise. This paper also contains the proof of the disappearance of Lyapunov irregular behavior on a positive Lebesgue measure set for a surface flow with an attracting homoclinic/heteroclinic connection under a non-physical noise.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2103.11531,
  title  = {Lyapunov exponents for random maps},
  author = {Fumihiko Nakamura and Yushi Nakano and Hisayoshi Toyokawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.11531},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

14 pages, 2 figure

R2 v1 2026-06-24T00:24:17.548Z