New results on pole-shifting for parametrized families of systems (Q1116929)

The authors generalise Corollary 3.6 of a paper by \textit{R. Bumby}, \textit{E. D. Sontag}, \textit{H. J. Sussmann} and \textit{W. Vasconcelos} [ibid. 20, 113-127 (1981; Zbl 0455.15009)] to systems over commutative rings with a finitely generated projective state space. They also prove that rings of continuous, smooth or real analytic functions on a manifold X are pole- assignable if and only if X is one-dimensional. Some results on PAF rings are also obtained.