• DocumentCode
    3129653
  • Title

    Area contraction of k-dimensional surfaces and almost global asymptotic stability

  • Author

    Aeyels, Dirk ; Smet, Filip De ; Langerock, Bavo

  • Author_Institution
    SYSTeMS research group, Department of Electrical Energy, Systems and Automation, Ghent University (UGent), Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 914, 9052 Zwijnaarde, Belgium. E-mail: Dirk.Aeyels@UGent.be
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    12-15 Dec. 2005
  • Firstpage
    7988
  • Lastpage
    7993
  • Abstract
    In this paper we will formulate sufficient conditions for the area contraction of k-dimensional surfaces under the flow of a set of differential equations. We discuss the connection with the Hausdorff dimension of invariant sets and show how the presence of first integrals of the system influences these results. We conclude with an application to almost global asymptotic stability.
  • Keywords
    Hausdorff dimension; first integrals; k-contracting vector fields; Astronomy; Asymptotic stability; Automation; Density functional theory; Differential equations; Level set; Physics; Space technology; State-space methods; Sufficient conditions; Hausdorff dimension; first integrals; k-contracting vector fields;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Decision and Control, 2005 and 2005 European Control Conference. CDC-ECC '05. 44th IEEE Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9567-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CDC.2005.1583454
  • Filename
    1583454