On the Lyapunov stability theory for impulsive dynamical systems (Q2422556)

Impulsive dynamical systems first appeared in the 1970's and had their mathematical foundation presented almost two decades later. Currently many authors are turning their attention to these systems, where a continuous evolution law is disrupted by abrupt changes of state, called \textit{jumps} or \textit{impulses}. \par In this paper the authors describe necessary and sufficient conditions under which one can achieve uniform stability (that is, solutions that start close to a given set remain close for all time, uniformly for the points in this set) and orbital stability (that is, given a set and a neighorbood $U$ of it, there is a smaller neighborhood $V\subset U$ such that all solutions that start in $V$ remain in $V$ for all times). \par They prove that relatively compact sets are uniformly stable iff they are orbitally stable, and in locally compact spaces they show that a relatively compact set is uniformly stable iff its prolongation coincides with its closure. \par Lastly, for a particular class of sets, the authors present conditions to ensure stability, orbital stability, and the existence of a Lyapunov function.