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In order to bring contraction analysis into the very fruitful and topical fields of stochastic and Bayesian systems, we extend here the theory describes in \cite{Lohmiller98} to random differential equations. We propose new definitions of…
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This article provides a characterization of stability for switched nonlinear systems under average dwell-time constraints, in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions involving multiple Lyapunov functions. Earlier converse results focus…
Gradient compression is of growing interests for solving constrained optimization problems including compressed sensing, noisy recovery and matrix completion under limited communication resources and storage costs. Convergence analysis of…
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Lyapunov's indirect method is an attractive method for analyzing stability of non-linear systems since only the stability of the corresponding linearized system needs to be determined. Unfortunately, the proof for finite-dimensional systems…
The paper considers impulsive systems with singularities. The main novelty of the present research is that impulses (impulsive functions) are singular. This is beside singularity of differential equations. The Lyapunov second method is…
We study the long-time behaviour of both the classical second-order Langevin dynamics and the nonlinear second-order Langevin dynamics of McKean-Vlasov type. By a coupling approach, we establish global contraction in an $L^1$ Wasserstein…
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We demonstrate the extension of unpredictable motions in coupled autonomous systems with skew product structure in the case that generalized synchronization takes place. Sufficient conditions for the existence of unpredictable motions in…
We provide explicit closed form expressions for strict Lyapunov functions for time-varying discrete time systems. Our Lyapunov functions are expressed in terms of known nonstrict Lyapunov functions for the dynamics and finite sums of…
We continue our study of the dynamics of mappings with small topological degree on (projective) complex surfaces. Previously, under mild hypotheses, we have constructed an ergodic ``equilibrium'' measure for each such mapping. Here we study…