Markovian reduction and exponential mixing in total variation for random dynamical systems

Abstract: The paper deals with the problem of large-time behaviour of trajectories for discrete-time dynamical systems driven by a random noise. Assuming that the phase space is finite-dimensional and compact, and the noise is a Markov process with a transition probability satisfying some regularity hypotheses, we prove that all the trajectories converge to a unique measure in the total variation metric. The proof is based on the Markovian reduction of the system in question and a result on mixing for Markov processes. Then we present an extension of this result to the case of systems driven by stationary noises.