Duality for coalescing stochastic flows on the real line

Abstract

For a class of coalescing stochastic flows on the real line the existence of dual flows is proved. A stochastic flow and its dual are constructed as a forward and backward perfect cocycles over the same metric dynamical system. The metric dynamical system itself is defined on a new state space for coalescing flows. General results are applied to Arratia flows with drift.