Averaging of Noisy Nonlinear Systems with Rapidly Oscillating and Decaying Components

Abstract

We consider a noisy n-dimensional nonlinear dynamical system containing rapidly oscillating and decaying components. We extend the results of Papanicolaou and Kohler and Namachchivaya and Lin; these results state that as the noise becomes smaller, a lower dimensional Markov process characterizes the limiting behavior. Our approach springs from a direct consideration of the martingale problem and considers both quadratic and cubic nonlinearities.