Bounding the Escape Time of a Linear Dynamical System over a Compact Semialgebraic Set

Julian D'Costa; Engel Lefaucheux; Eike Neumann; Joël Ouaknine; James Worrell

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Bounding the Escape Time of a Linear Dynamical System over a Compact Semialgebraic Set

Julian D'Costa·Engel Lefaucheux·Eike Neumann·Joël Ouaknine·James Worrell

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We study the Escape Problem for discrete-time linear dynamical systems over compact semialgebraic sets. We establish a uniform upper bound on the number of iterations it takes for every orbit of a rational matrix to escape a compact semialgebraic set defined over rational data. Our bound is doubly exponential in the ambient dimension, singly exponential in the degrees of the polynomials used to define the semialgebraic set, and singly exponential in the bitsize of the coefficients of these polynomials and the bitsize of the matrix entries. We show that our bound is tight by providing a matching lower bound.

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Julian D'Costa, Engel Lefaucheux, Eike Neumann, Joël Ouaknine, James Worrell. 2022-07-04. Bounding the Escape Time of a Linear Dynamical System over a Compact Semialgebraic Set. https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.01550

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