It is shown that the asymptotic stability of positive 2D linear systems with delays is independent of the number and values of the delays and it depends only on the sum of the system matrices, and that the checking of the asymptotic stability of positive 2D linear systems with delays can be reduced to testing that of the corresponding positive 1D systems without delays. The effectiveness of the proposed approaches is demonstrated on numerical examples.

For commuting elements x, y of a unital Banach algebra ℬ it is clear that $\parallel e^{x+y}\parallel \le \parallel e^x\parallel \parallel e^y\parallel$. On the order hand, M. Taylor has shown that this inequality remains valid for a self-adjoint operator x and a skew-adjoint operator y, without the assumption that they commute. In this paper we obtain similar inequalities under conditions that lie between these extremes. The inequalities are used to deduce growth estimates of the form $\parallel e^{\text{'}}\parallel \le c(1+|\xi |{⟩}^s$ for all $\xi \in R^m$, where $x=(x_1,...,x_m)\in {ℬ}^m$ and c, s are constants.

Let $a=(a_1,a_2,...,a_n)$ be a nonincreasing sequence of positive real numbers. Denote by $S=\{1,2,...,n\}$ the index set and by $J_k=\{I=\{r_1,r_2,...,r_k\}$, $1\le r_1<r_2<\cdots <r_k\le n\}$ the set of all subsets of $S$ of cardinality $k$, $1\le k\le n-1$. In addition, denote by $a_I=a_{r_1}+a_{r_2}+\cdots +a_{r_k}$, $1\le k\le n-1$, $1\le r_1<r_2<\cdots <r_k\le n$, the sum of $k$ arbitrary elements of sequence $a$, where $a_{I_1}=a_1+a_2+\cdots +a_k$ and $a_{I_n}=a_{n-k+1}+a_{n-k+2}+\cdots +a_n$. We consider bounds of the quantities $R{S}_k\left(a\right)=a_{I_1}/a_{I_n}$, $L{S}_k\left(a\right)=a_{I_1}-a_{I_n}$ and $S_{k,\alpha }\left(a\right)={\sum }_{I\in J_k}{a}_I^{\alpha }$ in terms of $A={\sum }_{i=1}^n{a}_i$ and $B={\sum }_{i=1}^n{a}_i^2$. Then we use the obtained results to generalize some results regarding Laplacian and normalized Laplacian eigenvalues of graphs.

Quadratic forms on a free finite-dimensional module are investigated. It is shown that the inertial law can be suitably generalized provided the vector space is replaced by a free finite-dimensional module over a certain linear algebra over $ℝ$ ( real plural algebra) introduced in [1].

In this paper the problem of construction of the canonical matrix belonging to symplectic forms on a module over the so called plural algebra (introduced in [5]) is solved.

Let S be a given set consisting of some Hermitian matrices with the same size. We say that a matrix A ∈ S is maximal if A − W is positive semidefinite for every matrix W ∈ S. In this paper, we consider the maximal and minimal inertias and ranks of the Hermitian matrix function f(X,Y) = P − QXQ* − TYT*, where * means the conjugate and transpose of a matrix, P = P*, Q, T are known matrices and for X and Y Hermitian solutions to the consistent matrix equations AX =B and YC = D respectively. As applications,...

Commutative Jordan algebras are used to drive an highly tractable framework for balanced factorial designs with a prime number p of levels for their factors. Both fixed effects and random effects models are treated. Sufficient complete statistics are obtained and used to derive UMVUE for the relevant parameters. Confidence regions are obtained and it is shown how to use duality for hypothesis testing.

Let $F$ be a field, $A$ be a vector space over $F$, $GL(F,A)$ be the group of all automorphisms of the vector space $A$. A subspace $B$ is called almost $G$-invariant, if ${dim}_F(B/{Core}_G\left(B\right))$ is finite. In the current article, we begin the study of those subgroups $G$ of $GL(F,A)$ for which every subspace of $A$ is almost $G$-invariant. More precisely, we consider the case when $G$ is a periodic group. We prove that in this case $A$ includes a $G$-invariant subspace $B$ of finite codimension whose subspaces are $G$-invariant.