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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 January 2017
For a composition of independent and identically distributed random maps or a memoryless stochastic flow on a compact space $X$, we find conditions under which the presence of locally asymptotically stable trajectories (e.g. as given by negative Lyapunov exponents) implies almost-sure mutual convergence of any given pair of trajectories (‘synchronization’). Namely, we find that synchronization occurs and is ‘stable’ if and only if the system exhibits the following properties: (i) there is a smallest non-empty invariant set
$K\subset X$; (ii) any two points in
$K$ are capable of being moved closer together; and (iii)
$K$ admits asymptotically stable trajectories.