Stability of non-autonomous difference equations with applications to transport and wave propagation on networks

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DOI10.3934/NHM.2016010zbMATH Open1388.39008arXiv1504.01116OpenAlexW2238655651MaRDI QIDQ727490FDOQ727490


Authors: Yacine Chitour, Guilherme Mazanti, Mario Sigalotti Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 7 December 2016

Published in: Networks and Heterogeneous Media (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we address the stability of transport systems and wave propagation on networks with time-varying parameters. We do so by reformulating these systems as non-autonomous difference equations and by providing a suitable representation of their solutions in terms of their initial conditions and some time-dependent matrix coefficients. This enables us to characterize the asymptotic behavior of solutions in terms of such coefficients. In the case of difference equations with arbitrary switching, we obtain a delay-independent generalization of the well-known criterion for autonomous systems due to Hale and Silkowski. As a consequence, we show that exponential stability of transport systems and wave propagation on networks is robust with respect to variations of the lengths of the edges of the network preserving their rational dependence structure. This leads to our main result: the wave equation on a network with arbitrarily switching damping at external vertices is exponentially stable if and only if the network is a tree and the damping is bounded away from zero at all external vertices but at most one.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.01116




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