Counting critical formations on the circle: algebraic-geometric and Morse-theoretic bounds

DOI10.1007/S00498-016-0163-8zbMATH Open1342.93035OpenAlexW2316295226MaRDI QIDQ305693FDOQ305693

Authors: Christian Lageman, Uwe Helmke 

Publication date: 30 August 2016

Published in: MCSS. Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00498-016-0163-8

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zbMATH Keywords

distributed controlformation controlMorse theoryalgebraic-geometric methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Algebraic methods (93B25) Geometric methods (93B27)

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• Simultaneous velocity consensus and shape control for a finite number of point agents on the unit circle

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