Criteria for the trivial solution of differential algebraic equations with small nonlinearities to be asymptotically stable (Q1270686)

Consider the differential algebraic equation \((*) \;A\dot{x} +Bx \not\equiv h(\dot{x},x,t)=0\) under the assumption that \(x=0\) is an equilibrium point to \((*)\). The author derives conditions such that in case that the Kronecker index i of the matrix pencil \(\{A,B\}\) satisfies i\((A,B)=2\), from the property that all roots of \(\det (\lambda A+B)=0\) have negative real parts can be concluded that \(x=0\) is asymptotically stable in the sense of Lyapunov. Especially it is required that \(\ker A\) belongs to the kernel of \(h_{\dot{x}} \;\forall (\dot{x},x,t)\) and that \(h\) is sufficiently smooth and sufficiently small together with certain derivatives.