Averaging and mixing for stochastic perturbations of linear conservative systems

Abstract: We study stochastic perturbations of linear systems of the form $$ dv(t)+Av(t)dt = \epsilon P(v(t))dt+\sqrt{\epsilon}B(v(t)) dW (t), v\in\mathbb{R}^{D}, () $$ where $A$ is a linear operator with non-zero imaginary spectrum. It is assumed that the vector field $P(v)$ and the matrix-function $B(v)$ are locally Lipschitz with at most a polynomial growth at infinity, that the equation is well posed and first few moments of norms of solutions $v(t)$ are bounded uniformly in $\epsilon$. We use the Khasminski approach to stochastic averaging to show that as $\epsilon\to0$, a solution $v(t)$, written in the interaction representation in terms of operator $A$, for $0\le t \le Const\,\epsilon^{-1}$ converges in distribution to a solution of an effective equation. The latter is obtained from () by means of certain averaging. Assuming that eq.(*) and/or the effective equation are mixing, we examine this convergence further.