Sensitivity to initial conditions and lyapunov exponent of a quasiperiodic system

The dynamics of a quasiperiodic map is analyzed both in the presence and in the absence of weak noise. It is shown that, in the presence of weak noise, a strange chaotic attractor with a negative Lyapunov exponent and sensitive dependence of trajectories on the initial conditions can exist in the system. This means that the types of motion of a fluctuating system cannot be classified only by the sign of the leading Lyapunov exponent.