A Generalized Nonuniform Contraction and Lyapunov Function

作者:Liao, Fang-fang*; Jiang, Yongxin; Xie, Zhiting
来源:Abstract and Applied Analysis, 2012, 613038.
DOI:10.1155/2012/613038

摘要

For nonautonomous linear equations x' = A(t)x, we give a complete characterization of general nonuniform contractions in terms of Lyapunov functions. We consider the general case of nonuniform contractions, which corresponds to the existence of what we call nonuniform (D,mu)-contractions. As an application, we establish the robustness of the nonuniform contraction under sufficiently small linear perturbations. Moreover, we show that the stability of a nonuniform contraction persists under sufficiently small nonlinear perturbations.

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