Sensitivity to Small Delays of Pathwise Stability for Stochastic Retarded Evolution Equations

In this paper, we shall study the almost sure pathwise exponential stability property for a class of stochastic functional differential equations with delays, possibly, in the highest-order derivative terms driven by multiplicative noise. Instead of establishing a moment exponential stability as the first step and then proceeding to investigate the pathwise stability of the system under consideration, we shall develop a direct approach for this problem. As a consequence, we can show that some systems, which are not exponential momently stable, have the exponential stability not sensitive to small delays in the almost sure sense.