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Symplectic difference systems: variable stepsize discretization and discrete quadratic functionals

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HILSCHER Roman ZEIDAN Vera

Year of publication 2003
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Linear Algebra and its Applications
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Faculty of Science

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Field General mathematics
Keywords symplectic difference system; discrete quadratic functional; variable stepsize; linear Hamiltonian difference system; conjugate interval; conjoined basis; Riccati difference equation; variable state endpoints
Description Discrete quadratic functionals with variable endpoints for variable stepsize symplectic difference systems are considered. A comprehensive study is presented for characterizing the positivity of such functionals in terms of conjugate intervals, conjoined bases, and implicit and explicit Riccati equations with various forms of boundary conditions. Moreover, necessary conditions for the nonnegativity of these functionals are obtained in terms of the above notions. Furthermore, we show that a variable stepsize discretization of a continuous-time nonlinear control problem leads to a discrete linear quadratic problem and a Hamiltonian difference system, which are special cases of their symplectic counterparts.
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