Michael Högele, Ilya Pavlyukevich

• We consider a finite dimensional deterministic dynamical system with finitely many local attractors K-iota, each of which supports a unique ergodic probability measure P-iota, perturbed by a multiplicative non-Gaussian heavy-tailed Levy noise of small intensity epsilon > 0. We show that the random system exhibits a metastable behavior: there exists a unique epsilon-dependent time scale on which the system reminds of a continuous time Markov chain on the set of the invariant measures P-iota. In particular our approach covers the case of dynamical systems of Morse-Smale type, whose attractors consist of points and limit cycles, perturbed by multiplicative alpha-stable Levy noise in the Ito, Stratonovich and Marcus sense. As examples we consider alpha-stable Levy perturbations of the Duffing equation and Pareto perturbations of a biochemical birhythmic system with two nested limit cycles.