Stabilizability, controllability, and observability of linear continuous- time systems defined over a commutative Banach algebra (Q1174307)

The author gives a method based on Gelfand transformation to investigate the basic problems of linear qualitative control theory for linear continuous-time systems defined over a Hermitian commutative Banach algebra. The main idea is that after Gelfand transformation the problems under investigation such as stabilizability, controllability and observability are reduced to the corresponding ones in finite-dimensional linear control theory. The results obtained are applied to solve the continuous-time linear stabilization problem posed by Kamen and Green.