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Lyapunov Stability<br />

Lyapunov stability occurs in the study <strong>of</strong> dynamical systems<br />

In simple terms, if all solutions <strong>of</strong> the dynamical system that start out near an equilibrium point<br />

stay near forever, then is Lyapunov stable<br />

xe e x e x<br />

x e x e x<br />

More strongly, if all solutions that start out near e converge to , then is<br />

asymptotically stable<br />

The notion <strong>of</strong> exponential stability guarantees a minimal rate <strong>of</strong> decay, i.e., an estimate <strong>of</strong> how<br />

quickly the solutions converge<br />

The idea <strong>of</strong> Lyapunov stability can be extended to infinite-dimensional<br />

manifolds, where it is known as Structural Stability, which concerns the behaviour <strong>of</strong> different<br />

but "nearby" solutions to differential equations<br />

CAS-DSP, Sigtuna 2007-Control Theory-S.Simrock<br />

x<br />

2<br />

x1<br />

6

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