Lyapunov stability of differential inclusions involving prox-regular sets via maximal monotone operators

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Abstract: In this paper, we study the existence and the stability in the sense of Lyapunov of solutions for differential inclusions governed by the normal cone to a prox-regular set and subject to a Lipschitzian perturbation. We prove that such, apparently, more general nonsmooth dynamics can be indeed remodelled into the classical theory of differential inclusions involving maximal monotone operators. This result is new in the literature and permits us to make use of the rich and abundant achievements in this class of monotone operators to derive the desired existence result and stability analysis, as well as the continuity and differentiability properties of the solutions. This going back and forth between these two models of differential inclusions is made possible thanks to a viability result for maximal monotone operators. As an application, we study a Luenberger-like observer, which is shown to converge exponentially to the actual state when the initial value of the state's estimation remains in a neighborhood of the initial value of the original system.


The authors consider the first-order differential inclusion \[\dot{x}(t)\in f(x(t))-N_{C}(x(t)), \quad t\geq 0,\] \(x(0)=x_{0}\in C\) in a Hilbert space, where \(N_{C}\) represents the normal cone to the \(r\)-uniformly prox-regular closed subset \(C\) of \(H\), and \(f\) is Lipschitz and can be thought of as a perturbation. The authors give a stability result for the invariance of closed sets, a proof for the existence and uniqueness of solutions, and characterize the lower semi-continuous \(a\)-Lyapunov pairs and functions, followed by applications to the control of sweeping processes. It is also noted that (1) includes some parabolic variational inequalities and nonlinear differential complementarity systems. Results from the literature, for example [\textit{A. Hantoute} and \textit{M. Mazade}, Positivity 21, No. 1, 423--448 (2017; Zbl 1370.34117)], are extended. The main key to the paper is writing (1) as a differential inclusion governed by a maximal monotone operator connected to the prox-regular set, and thus classical results can be applied, such as those found in [\textit{H. Brézis}, Opérateurs maximaux monotones et semi-groupes de contractions dans les espaces de Hilbert. Amsterdam: Elsevier (1973; Zbl 0252.47055)].



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