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Solutions of a smooth first order dynamic equation can be made Lyapunov stable at will by the choice of an appropriate time-dependent Riemannian metric.

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Sardanashvily

Lyapunov stability of a mechanical system means that the dynamic response stays bounded in an arbitrarily small neighborhood of a static equilibrium configuration under small perturbations in positions and velocities. This type of stability…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Péter L. Várkonyi , Yizhar Or

We revisit the classical problem of absolute stability; assessing the robust stability of a given linear time-invariant (LTI) plant in feedback with a nonlinearity belonging to some given function class. Standard results typically take the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-15 Bryan Van Scoy , Laurent Lessard

Considered in this report is the one-dimensional fourth-order dispersive cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with mixed dispersion. Orbital stability, in the energy space, of a particular standing-wave solution is proved in the context…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-02 Fábio Natali , Ademir Pastor

We address the classic problem of stability and asymptotic stability in the sense of Lyapunov of the equilibrium point of autonomic differential equations using discrete approach. This new approach includes a consideration of a family of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2012-11-07 Eugene Polulyakh , Vladimir Sharko , Igor Vlasenko

Using the integrability of the sinh-Gordon equation, we demonstrate the spectral stability of its elliptic solutions. By constructing a Lyapunov functional using higher-order conserved quantities of the sinh-Gordon equation, we show that…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2023-01-11 Wen-Rong Sun , Bernard Deconinck

The Lyapunov stability is established for the N-soliton solutions in the Lax hierarchy of the Benjamin-Ono (BO) equation. We characterize the N-soliton profiles as critical points of certain Lyapunov functional. By using several results…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-06-26 Yoshimasa Matsuno

Stability analysis plays a crucial role in studying the behavior of dynamical systems with theoretical and engineering applications. Among various kinds of stability, the stability of equilibrium points is of the greatest importance which…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Arash Mehrjou , Bernhard Schölkopf

We provide several characterizations of convergence to unstable equilibria in nonlinear systems. Our current contribution is three-fold. First we present simple algebraic conditions for establishing local convergence of non-trivial…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-11-17 A. N. Gorban , I. Yu. Tyukin , H. Nijmeijer

We apply an algebraic method for studying the stability with respect to a set of conserved quantities for the problem of torque-free gyrostat. If the conditions of this algebraic method are not fulfilled then the Lyapunov stability cannot…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-03-15 Dan Comanescu

The paper endeavours to solve the problem of the necessary and sufficient conditions for testing asymptotic stability of the equilibrium state without using a positive definite or semi-definite Lyapunov function for time-invariant nonlinear…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-11-07 Rachid Bouyekhf , Lyubomir T. Gruyitch

In the present article, we consider a thermoelastic plate of Reissner-Mindlin-Timoshenko type with the hyperbolic heat conduction arising from Cattaneo's law. In the absense of any additional mechanical dissipations, the system is often not…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Michael Pokojovy

In the general case of the $\mathfrak{so}(n)$ free rigid body we give a list of integrals of motion, which generate the set of Mishchenko's integrals. In the case of $\mathfrak{so}(5)$ we prove that there are fifteen coordinate type Cartan…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-05-06 Ioan Casu

Lyapunov-like characterizations for non-uniform in time and uniform robust global asymptotic stability of uncertain systems described by retarded functional differential equations are provided.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Iasson Karafyllis

The stability of the equilibrium state is one of the crucial tests a hydrodynamic theory needs to pass. A widespread technique to study this property consists of searching for a Lyapunov function of the linearised theory, in the form of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-30 Lorenzo Gavassino

For the three-body problem, we consider the Lagrange stability. To analyze the stability, along with integrals of energy and angular momentum, we use relations by the author from Sosnitskii (2005), which band together separately squared…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-02 Stepan Sosnitskii

We explicitly construct global strict Lyapunov functions for rapidly time-varying nonlinear control systems. The Lyapunov functions we construct are expressed in terms of oftentimes more readily available Lyapunov functions for the limiting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Frederic Mazenc , Michael Malisoff , Marcio S. de Queiroz

In this paper we consider a nonlinear Petrovsky equation in a bounded domain with a delay term and a strong dissipation \begin{align*} u_{tt} + \Delta^{2} u -\mu_1g_1( \Delta( u_t(x,t))) -\mu_2g_2( \Delta (u_t(x,t-\tau))) =0. \end{align*}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-20 Ahmed Chahtou , Mama Abdelli , Akram Ben Aissa

We analyze stability properties of monotone nonlinear systems via max-separable Lyapunov functions, motivated by the following observations: first, recent results have shown that asymptotic stability of a monotone nonlinear system implies…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Hamid Reza Feyzmahdavian , Bart Besselink , Mikael Johansson

We prove that the fixed points of the curved 3-body problem and their associated relative equilibria are Lyapunov stable if the solutions are restricted to $\mathbb S^1$, but unstable if the bodies are considered in $\mathbb S^2$.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-01-06 Florin Diacu , Juan Manuel Sánchez-Cerritos , Shuqiang Zhu