Continuity of measure-theoretic entropy for stochastic differential equations

Abstract

For stochastic differential equations, we establish a relationship between the measure-theoretic entropy of the stochastic flow and the rate of volume growth of stable submanifolds under iteration. By combining the result of Kifer and Yomdin (1988), we show that under a suitable integrability condition, for systems with $C^{\infty }$ coefficients, the measure-theoretic entropy is upper semicontinuous with respect to the coefficients of SDEs.

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