title: 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 that render a given dynamical system stochastically unstable. The stochastic instability of quasi-isolated systems is responsible for the irreversibility of time arrow.
authors.affiliation: Research Center for Optics and Photonics, Instituto de Fisica de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 369, São Carlos, São Paulo 13560-970, Brazil.
authors.forename: V I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Yukalov