A behavioral characterization of the positive real and bounded real characteristic values in balancing (Q626801)

The author considers passivity preserving and bounded realness preserving input-output systems as special cases of systems that are dissipative on the negative half line, and whose number of input components is equal to the positive signature of the supply rate. A~linear operator from past to future behavior is introduced, the \(\Sigma\)-characteristic values of the given behavior can be computed in terms of the extremal solutions of the algebraic Riccati equation associated with a driving variable representation of the behavior.