In practice, one is not only interested in the qualitative characterizations provided by the Lyapunov stability, but also in quantitative information concerning the system behavior, including estimates of trajectory bounds, possibly over finite time intervals. This type of information has been ascertained in the past in a systematic manner using the concept of practical stability. In the present paper, we give a new definition of generalized practical stability (abbreviated as GP-stability) and...

Let $L\left(y\right)=y^{\left(n\right)}+q_{n-1}\left(t\right)y^{(n-1)}+\cdots +q_0\left(t\right)y,t\in [a,b)$, be an $n$-th order differential operator, $L^{*}$ be its adjoint and $p,w$ be positive functions. It is proved that the self-adjoint equation $L^{*}\left(p\left(t\right)L\left(y\right)\right)=w\left(t\right)y$ is nonoscillatory at $b$ if and only if the equation $L\left(w^{-1}\left(t\right)L^{*}\left(y\right)\right)=p^{-1}\left(t\right)y$ is nonoscillatory at $b$. Using this result a new necessary condition for property BD of the self-adjoint differential operators with middle terms is obtained.

In this paper first order systems of linear of ODEs are considered. It is shown that these systems admit unique solutions in the Colombeau algebra $ℒ\left({𝐑}^1\right)$.

Several recent results in the area of robust asymptotic stability of hybrid systems show that the concept of a generalized solution to a hybrid system is suitable for the analysis and design of hybrid control systems. In this paper, we show that such generalized solutions are exactly the solutions that arise when measurement noise in the system is taken into account.

A fractional differential controller for incommensurate fractional unified chaotic system is described and proved by using the Gershgorin circle theorem in this paper. Also, based on the idea of a nonlinear observer, a new method for generalized synchronization (GS) of this system is proposed. Furthermore, the GS technique is applied in secure communication (SC), and a chaotic masking system is designed. Finally, the proposed fractional differential controller, GS and chaotic masking scheme are...

An abstract theory on general synchronization of a system of several oscillators coupled by a medium is given. By generalized synchronization we mean the existence of an invariant manifold that allows a reduction in dimension. The case of a concrete system modeling the dynamics of a chemical solution on two containers connected to a third container is studied from the basics to arbitrary perturbations. Conditions under which synchronization occurs are given. Our theoretical results are complemented...

Generalized synchronization in the direct acyclic networks, i.e. the networks represented by the directed tree, is presented here. Network nodes consist of copies of the so-called generalized Lorenz system with possibly different parameters yet mutually structurally equivalent. The difference in parameters actually requires the generalized synchronization rather than the identical one. As the class of generalized Lorenz systems includes the well-known particular classes such as (classical) Lorenz...

We study extension of $p$-trigonometric functions ${sin}_p$ and ${cos}_p$ to complex domain. For $p=4,6,8,\cdots$, the function ${sin}_p$ satisfies the initial value problem which is equivalent to (*) $$-{\left(u^{\text{'}}\right)}^{p-2}{u}^{\text{'}\text{'}}-u^{p-1}=0,u\left(0\right)=0,u^{\text{'}}\left(0\right)=1$$ in $ℝ$. In our recent paper, Girg, Kotrla (2014), we showed that ${sin}_p\left(x\right)$ is a real analytic function for $p=4,6,8,\cdots$ on $(-{\pi }_p/2,{\pi }_p/2)$, where ${\pi }_p/2={\int }_0^1{(1-s^p)}^{-1/p}$. This allows us to extend ${sin}_p$ to complex domain by its Maclaurin series convergent on the disc $\{z\in ℂ:|z|<{\pi }_p/2\}$. The question is whether this extensions ${sin}_p\left(z\right)$ satisfies (*) in the sense of differential equations in complex domain. This interesting...