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Contraction theory is a powerful tool for proving asymptotic properties of nonlinear dynamical systems including convergence to an attractor and entrainment to a periodic excitation. We consider three generalizations of contraction with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Michael Margaliot , Eduardo D. Sontag , Tamir Tuller

Motivated by the grid search method and Bayesian optimization, we introduce the concept of contractibility and its applications in model-based optimization. First, a basic framework of contraction methods is established to construct a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-24 Xiaopeng Luo , Xin Xu

A dynamical system is called contractive if any two solutions approach one another at an exponential rate. More precisely, the dynamics contracts lines at an exponential rate. This property implies highly ordered asymptotic behavior…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-29 Chengshuai Wu , Ilya Kanevskiy , and Michael Margaliot

The paper presents the generalized persistency of excitation conditions. They are not only valid for much broader range of applications than their classical counterparts but also elegantly prove the validity of the latter. The novelty and…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sergey Nikitin

A geometric generalization of contraction theory called~$k$-contraction was recently developed using $k$-compound matrices. In this note, we focus on the relations between $k$-contraction and two other generalized contraction frameworks:…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Chengshuai Wu , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-09-27 Nicolas Tabareau , Jean-Jacques Slotine

The contraction is applied to obtaining of integrable systems associated with nonsemisimple algebras. The effect of contraction is splitting off some components from initial system without loss of integrability.

solv-int · Physics 2009-10-30 N. A. Gromov , I. V. Kostyakov , V. V. Kuratov

This paper investigates contraction properties of switched dynamical systems for the case that all modes are non-contracting, thereby extending existing results that require at least one mode to be contracting. Leveraging the property that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-19 Edwin Baum , Zonglin Liu , Yuzhen Qin , Olaf Stursberg

This paper addresses the problem of giving conditions for transcriptional systems to be globally entrained to external periodic inputs. By using contraction theory, a powerful tool from dynamical systems theory, it is shown that certain…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-13 Giovanni Russo , Mario di Bernardo , Eduardo D. Sontag

Contraction theory is a mathematical framework for studying the convergence, robustness, and modularity properties of dynamical systems and algorithms. In this opinion paper, we provide five main opinions on the virtues of contraction…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Alexander Davydov , Francesco Bullo

Contraction theory for dynamical systems on Euclidean spaces is well-established. For contractive (resp. semi-contractive) systems, the distance (resp. semi-distance) between any two trajectories decreases exponentially fast. For partially…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Pedro Cisneros-Velarde , Saber Jafarpour , Francesco Bullo

This paper pursues a twofold goal. First, we introduce and study in detail a new notion of variational analysis called generalized metric subregularity, which is a far-going extension of the conventional metric subregularity conditions. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Guoyin Li , Boris Mordukhovich , Jiangxing Zhu

This study introduces a procedure to obtain general expressions, $y = f(x)$, subject to linear constraints on the function and its derivatives defined at specified values. These constrained expressions can be used describe functions with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-18 Daniele Mortari

We show with several examples that renormalization group (RG) theory can be used to understand singular and reductive perturbation methods in a unified fashion. Amplitude equations describing slow motion dynamics in nonequilibrium phenomena…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Lin-Yuan Chen , Nigel Goldenfeld , Y. Oono

We give sufficient conditions for asymptotic stabilization of equilibrium points and periodic orbits of a dynamical system when we add a geometric dissipation of gradient type. We also describe the domain of attraction in the case of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-05-02 Petre Birtea , Dan Comănescu

Dynamics of sine-Gordon kinks in the presence of rapidly varying periodic perturbations of different physical origins is described analytically and numerically. The analytical approach is based on asymptotic expansions, and it allows to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Yuri S. Kivshar , Niels Grønbech-Jensen , Robert D. Parmentier

We establish a number of "concatenation theorems" that assert, roughly speaking, that if a function exhibits "polynomial" (or "Gowers anti-uniform", "uniformly almost periodic", or "nilsequence") behaviour in two different directions…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-18 Terence Tao , Tamar Ziegler

A general analytical method is developed for describing crossover phenomena of arbitrary nature. The method is based on the algebraic self-similar renormalization of asymptotic series, with control functions defined by crossover conditions.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Gluzman , V. I. Yukalov

Infinitesimal contraction analysis, wherein global asymptotic convergence results are obtained from local dynamical properties, has proven to be a powerful tool for applications in biological, mechanical, and transportation systems. Thus…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-04-12 Samuel A Burden , Samuel D Coogan

We explicitly carry out the symplectic quantization of a family of multi-field Generalized Proca (GP) electrodynamics theories. In the process, we provide an independent derivation of the so-called secondary constraint enforcing relations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-26 Verónica Errasti Díez , Marina Krstic Marinkovic
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