Notes on uniform approximation of shift-varying systems (Q1390729)

It is shown that the elements \(G\) of a large class of input-output maps can be uniformly approximated arbitrarily well using a certain structure if and only if \(G\) is continuous. For the case considered the system inputs and outputs are defined on a discrete set \(\{0,1, \dots, a_1\} \times \{0,1, \dots, a_m\}\), in which \(a_1, \dots, a_m\) are positive integers. Our approximating structure involves certain functions that can be chosen in different ways. For the special case in which these functions are taken to be certain polynomial functions, the input-output map of our structure is a generalized discrete Volterra series. The author's results provide an analytical basis for the use of such series.