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The statistical equilibrium of an isotropic stochastic flow with negative lyapounov exponents is trivial

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It is well known that every stochastic flow on Rd, whose one-point motion has an invariant measure m, gives rise to a measure-valued process (v t, t≥0) with v 0=m, which converges almost surely to a random measure ℝd, called the statistical equilibrium. We prove here that if the flow is spatially homogeneous and isotropic, and if either the covariance is smooth and the top Lyapounov exponent is strictly negative, or if the flow is “of coalescing type” (these phenomena can only occur when d≤3), then v =0 a.s.

The first author thanks Université Paris VI for its hospitality, and the National Science Foundation (Grant DMS 8502802) and the CNRS for partial financial support for this work.

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Darling, R.W.R., Le Jan, Y. (1988). The statistical equilibrium of an isotropic stochastic flow with negative lyapounov exponents is trivial. In: Azéma, J., Yor, M., Meyer, P.A. (eds) Séminaire de Probabilités XXII. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1321. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0084135

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