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Conal Distances Between Rational Spectral Densities

Optimization and Control 2018-02-20 v2

Abstract

The paper generalizes Thompson and Hilbert metric to the space of spectral densities. The resulting complete metric space has the differentiable structure of a Finsler manifold with explicit geodesics. The resulting distances are filtering invariant, can be computed efficiently, and admit geodesic paths that preserve rationality; these are properties of fundamental importance in many engineering applications.

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@article{arxiv.1708.02818,
  title  = {Conal Distances Between Rational Spectral Densities},
  author = {Giacomo Baggio and Augusto Ferrante and Rodolphe Sepulchre},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.02818},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

24 pages, 4 figures. Revised version: title has been changed, several parts have been rewritten, two sections have been added (one illustrating some motivating examples, the other concerning a numerical example). Submitted for publication

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