Noise-induced stabilization of planar flows II

Abstract

We continue the work started in Part I of this article, showing how the addition of noise can stabilize an otherwise unstable system. The analysis makes use of nearly optimal Lyapunov functions. In this continuation, we remove the main limiting assumption of Part I by an inductive procedure as well as establish a lower bound which shows that our construction is radially sharp. We also prove a version of Peskir's generalized Tanaka formula adapted to patching together Lyapunov functions. This greatly simplifies the analysis used in previous works.