Complementarity and variational inequalities in electronics (Q524357)

The aim of the book is to present the way in which convex analysis can be used in the qualitative study of nonlinear electronic circuits containing diodes and transistors. Also various applications of complementarily problems, variational inequalities and differential inclusions in the domain of analog electronics like slicers, amplitude selectors, sampling gates, operational amplifiers, rectifiers etc. are discussed. The book contains significant results obtained and published by the authors. The book is structured on 5 chapters. After a short introduction in the first chapter the complementarity relations and problems and their relationship to electronics are briefly presented. Chapter two is entitled ``The Convex Subdifferential Relation''. It begins with the explanation of the convex subdifferential relation and the normal cone and continues with examples of subdifferential relations related to various more or less idealized characteristics of nonlinear devices like diodes, Zener diodes, varistors and transistors. Chapter three, ``The variational Inequality Problem'' is devoted to the presentation of the variational inequality and its model in electronics. In the second part of the chapter a general clipping circuit and a rectifier-stabilizer are presented and analyzed. Chapter four, the most extended one, is titled ``A Variational Inequality Theory''. It begins with the presentation of the recession tools i.e., the recession cone and recession function which will allow derivation of sufficient and necessary conditions for the inequality problems. Next, special classes of matrices \(M\) and functions \(\Phi\) are defined and conditions for solvability, positivity, existence and uniqueness results, copositivity and diagonal stability related to solvability are discussed. In the end, after presenting general results in the nonlinear case, the author gives four examples: a four diode bridge full-wave rectifier, a rectifier stabilizer circuit, a common emitter amplifier structure and an operational amplifier circuit. The last chapter, ``The Nonregular Dynamical System'' begins with the Kalman-Yakubovich-Popov lemma and continues with examples of nonregular circuits which are treated with respect to existence and uniqueness and invariance theories. The book ends with a comprehensive bibliography and an index. The mathematical results presented in the book can be useful in the study of stationary points of dynamical circuits, Lyapunov stability and attractivity problems and give interesting insight based on certain special characteristics of the nonlinear devices in the circuits. The book can be of interest for electronic engineers that want to have alternative visions to some not very complex analogue circuits as well as for mathematicians who will find practical examples from the electronic domain. It can be considered as an interesting tryout to present applications of strong mathematical results in analogue electronic circuit analysis.