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A State-Space Approach to Parametrization of Stabilizing Controllers for Nonlinear Systems
A state-space approach to Youla-parametrization of stabilizing controllers for linear and nonlinear systems is suggested. The stabilizing controllers (or a class of stabilizing controllers for nonlinear systems) are characterized as (linear/nonlinear) fractional transformations of stable parameters. The main idea behind this approach is to decompose the output feedback stabilization problem into state feedback and state estimation problems. The parametrized output feedback controllers have separation structures. A separation principle follows from the construction. This machinery allows the parametrization of stabilizing controllers to be conducted directly in state space without using coprime-factorization
Geometric transport along circular orbits in stationary axisymmetric spacetimes
Parallel transport along circular orbits in orthogonally transitive
stationary axisymmetric spacetimes is described explicitly relative to Lie
transport in terms of the electric and magnetic parts of the induced
connection. The influence of both the gravitoelectromagnetic fields associated
with the zero angular momentum observers and of the Frenet-Serret parameters of
these orbits as a function of their angular velocity is seen on the behavior of
parallel transport through its representation as a parameter-dependent Lorentz
transformation between these two inner-product preserving transports which is
generated by the induced connection. This extends the analysis of parallel
transport in the equatorial plane of the Kerr spacetime to the entire spacetime
outside the black hole horizon, and helps give an intuitive picture of how
competing "central attraction forces" and centripetal accelerations contribute
with gravitomagnetic effects to explain the behavior of the 4-acceleration of
circular orbits in that spacetime.Comment: 33 pages ijmpd latex article with 24 eps figure
Consistency of LCDM with Geometric and Dynamical Probes
The LCDM cosmological model assumes the existence of a small cosmological
constant in order to explain the observed accelerating cosmic expansion.
Despite the dramatic improvement of the quality of cosmological data during the
last decade it remains the simplest model that fits remarkably well (almost)
all cosmological observations. In this talk I review the increasingly
successful fits provided by LCDM on recent geometric probe data of the cosmic
expansion. I also briefly discuss some emerging shortcomings of the model in
attempting to fit specific classes of data (eg cosmic velocity dipole flows and
cluster halo profiles). Finally, I summarize recent results on the
theoretically predicted matter overdensity () evolution (a dynamical probe of the cosmic expansion),
emphasizing its scale and gauge dependence on large cosmological scales in the
context of general relativity. A new scale dependent parametrization which
describes accurately the growth rate of perturbations even on scales larger
than 100h^{-1}Mpc is shown to be a straightforward generalization of the well
known scale independent parametrization f(a)=\omms(a)^\gamma valid on smaller
cosmological scales.Comment: 20 pages, 6 figures. Invited review at the 1st Mediterranean
Conference on Classical and Quantum Gravity (MCCQG). To appear in the
proceeding
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