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This paper provides a theoretical background for Lagrangian Descriptors (LDs). The goal of achieving rigourous proofs that justify the ability of LDs to detect invariant manifolds is simplified by introducing an alternative definition for…

We propose a composite Lyapunov framework for nonlinear autonomous systems that ensures strict decay through a pair of differential inequalities. The approach yields integral estimates, quantitative convergence rates, vanishing of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Hassan Saoud

For an underactuated (simple) Hamiltonian system with two degrees of freedom and one degree of underactuation, a rather general condition that ensures its stabilizability, by means of the existence of a (simple) Lyapunov function, was found…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-29 Sergio Grillo , Leandro Salomone , Marcela Zuccalli

The development of instability in the dynamics of theories with higher derivatives is traced in detail in the framework of the Pais-Uhlenbeck fourth oder oscillator. For this aim the external friction force is introduced in the model and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 V. V. Nesterenko

We prove that the linear instability in a non-degenerate higher derivative theory, the Ostrogradski instability, can only be removed by the addition of constraints if the original theory's phase space is reduced.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-04 Tai-jun Chen , Matteo Fasiello , Eugene A. Lim , Andrew J. Tolley

A general stability condition for plasma-vacuum systems with resistive walls is derived by using the Frieman Rotenberg lagrangian stability formulation [Rev. Mod. Phys. 32, 898 (1960)]. It is shown that the Lyapunov stability limit for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 H. Tasso , G. N. Throumoulopoulos

The method of Lyapunov functions is one of the most effective ones for the investigation of stability of dynamical systems, in particular, of stochastic differential systems. The main purpose of the paper is the analysis of the stability of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Tomas Caraballo , Mohamed Ali Hammami , Lasaad Mchiri

This article concerns the stability of a model for mass-spring systems with positive damping and negative stiness. It is well known that when the coefficients are frozen in time the system is unstable. Here we find conditions on the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-06-01 Julio G. Dix , Cesar A. Terrero-Escalante

The paper presents necessary and sufficient conditions for a nonlinear system to be stabilized by a feedback. The conditions are based on the ideas related to the well-known Pontryagin's maximum principle. That allows us to formulate the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sergey Nikitin

This is an expository paper on Lyapunov stability of equilibria of autonomous Hamiltonian systems. Our aim is to clarify the concept of weak instability, namely instability without non-constant motions which have the equilibrium as limit…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-10-05 Gaetano Zampieri

We prove the existence of local stable, unstable, and center manifolds for stochastic semiflows induced by rough differential equations driven by rough paths valued stochastic processes around random fixed points of the equation. Examples…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Mazyar Ghani Varzaneh , Sebastian Riedel

We present a data-driven framework based on Lyapunov theory to provide stability guarantees for a family of hybrid systems. In particular, we are interested in the asymptotic stability of switching linear systems whose switching sequence is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-13 Adrien Banse , Zheming Wang , Raphaël M. Jungers

Randomly-assembled dynamical systems are theoretically predicted to be unstable upon crossing a critical threshold of complexity, as first shown by May. Yet, empirical complex systems exhibit remarkable stability, indicating the presence of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-31 Francesco Ferraro , Christian Grilletta , Amos Maritan , Samir Suweis , Sandro Azaele

Stability of stationary solutions of parabolic equations is conventionally studied by linear stability analysis, Lyapunov functions or lower and upper functions. We discuss here another approach based on differential inequalities written…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-26 A. G. Ramm , V. Volpert

In this article we introduce new possibilities of bounding the stability constants that play a vital role in the reduced basis method. By bounding stability constants over a neighborhood we make it possible to guarantee stability at more…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-21 Robert O'Connor

This paper proposes several Converse Lyapunov Theorems for nonlinear dynamical systems defined on smooth connected Riemannian manifolds and characterizes properties of corresponding Lyapunov functions in a normal neighborhood of an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-25 Farzin Taringoo , Peter M. Dower , Dragan Nešić , Ying Tan

In this article we formulate and prove sufficient conditions for the existence of trajectories of nonstationary periodic solutions of autonomous Hamiltonian systems in a neighbourhood of equilibria. It is worth pointing out that assumptions…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-06-21 A. Gołębiewska , S. Rybicki

This paper mainly deals with switched linear systems defined by a pair of Hurwitz matrices that share a common but not strict quadratic Lyapunov function. Its aim is to give sufficient conditions for such a system to be GUAS.We show that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Moussa Balde , Philippe Jouan , Said Naciri

We investigate the uniform stability properties of discrete-time linear switched systems subject to arbitrary switching, focusing on the "marginally unstable" regime in which the system is not Lyapunov stable but in which trajectories…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-03-28 Ian D. Morris

In this work, we study finite-time stability of switched and hybrid systems in the presence of unstable modes. We present sufficient conditions in terms of multiple Lyapunov functions for the origin of the system to be finite time stable.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Kunal Garg , Dimitra Panagou