\(A\)-map representations and asymptotically almost periodic responses (Q2764547)

It was recently shown that for each member \(G\) of a large class of causal time-invariant nonlinear input-output maps, with inputs and outputs defined on the non-negative integers, there is a functional \(A\) on the input set such that \((Gs)(k)\) has the representation \(A(F_ks)\) for all \(k\) and each input \(s\), in which \(F_k\) is a simple linear map that does not depend on \(G\).NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEHere, we consider nonlinear maps \(G\) that have `\(A\)-map representations'. We observe that these \(G\)s have extensions to a domain of inputs defined on the set of all integers. We show that these extensions possess some interesting properties including a certain important uniqueness property. As an application, we show that under the (very often satisfied) conditions of time invariance, causality, and approximately finite memory, and under typically mild boundedness and continuity conditions, the response of \(G\) to a discrete-time asymptotically almost periodic input is an output that is always an asymptotically almost periodic function, and that the almost periodic part of the output is independent of the transient part of the input. We also give corresponding results for a continuous-time case.