Random and deterministic perturbation of a class of skew-product systems (Q4257741)

The paper deals with the stability of dynamically invariant subspaces. This type of question arises in the area of chaotic synchronisation and its use in communication systems. To be more precise the authors study skew-product systems of the form \(T(x,y)=(f(x),g(x,y))\), in which \((f,X,\mu)\) is an ergodic map of the compact metric space \(X\) and \(g:X\times \mathbb{R}^n\to \mathbb{R}^n\) is continuous. The authors show that if the function \(g(x,y)\) which has a negative maximal Lyapunov exponent in the fibre is perturbed to another function \(\widetilde{g}\) sufficiently close in the Lipschitz topology then the resulting skew-product \(\widetilde{T}(x,y)=(f(x),\widetilde{g}(x,y))\) preserves the mixing properties of \(T(x,y)\). The authors also prove that the invariant measure for the perturbed system is continuous as a function of the size of the perturbation to \(g\). Furthermore the authors' results have applications to the stability IFS.