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Compactness and convexity of cores of targets for neutral systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Anthony N. Eke
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria.
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Abstract

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In this paper we prove the convexity and the compactness of the cores of targets for neutral control systems. We make use of a weak compactness argument; but in the crucial part where we establish the boundeduess of the cores of the target we make use of the notion of asymptotic direction from convex Set Theory. Let En be n-dimensional Euclidean space. We prove that the core of the target H = L + E (where L = {xEn | Mx = 0}, M is a constant in m × n matrix and E is a compact, convex set containing 0) of the neutral system

is convex, and is compact if, and only if, the system

is Euclidean controllable.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1989

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