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Contracting dynamical systems in Banach spaces

Anand Srinivasan·Jean-Jacques Slotine
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Contraction rates of time-varying maps induced by dynamical systems illuminate a wide range of asymptotic properties with applications in stability analysis and control theory. In finite-dimensional smoothly varying inner-product spaces such as $\mathbb{R}^n$ and $\mathbb{C}^n$ with Riemannian metrics, contraction rates can be estimated by upper-bounding the real numerical range of the vector field's Jacobian. However, vector spaces with norms other than $L^2$ commonly arise in the stability analysis of infinite-dimensional systems such as those arising from partial differential equations and continuum mechanics. To this end, we present a unified approach to contraction analysis in Banach spaces using the theory of weighted semi-inner products. We generalize contraction in a geodesic distance to asymptotic stability of perturbations in smoothly varying semi-inner products, and show that the latter is a dynamical invariant similar to the coordinate-invariance of Lyapunov exponents. We show that contraction in particular weighted spaces verifies asymptotic convergence to subspaces and submanifolds, present applications to limit-cycle analysis and phase-locking phenomena, and pose general conditions for inheritance of contraction properties within coupled systems. We discuss contraction rates in Sobolev spaces for retention of regularity in partial differential equations, and suggest a type of weak solution defined by a vanishing contractive term. Lastly, we present an application to machine learning, using weighted semi-inner products to derive stability conditions for functional gradient descent in a Banach space.

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Anand Srinivasan, Jean-Jacques Slotine. 2021-12-27. Contracting dynamical systems in Banach spaces. https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.13541

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