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Lyapunov stability

Saturday, May 21st, 2005

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Lyapunov (Liapunoff) stability is the standard notion of stability and a vital notion in the study of dynamical systems (including applications such as Mathematical Biology). It appears on the syllabus of many courses at Bath. This writeup covers the defintion (with plain-english interpretation), describes the direct method, and proves the Lyapunov stability theorem. Lyapunov functions and asymptotic stability are briefly mentioned.