Explicit solutions for a system of coupled Lyapunov differential matrix equations

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the problem of obtaining explicit expressions of solutions of a system of coupled Lyapunov matrix differential equations of the type where F i , A i ( t ), B i ( t ), C i ( t ) and D ij ( t ) are m × m complex matrices (members of ℂ m × m ), for 1≦ i , j ≦ N , and t in the interval [ a,b ]. When the coefficient matrices of (1.1) are timeinvariant, D ij are scalar multiples of the identity matrix of the type D ij = d ij I , where d ij are real positive numbers, for 1≦ i, j ≦ N C i , is the transposed matrix of B i and F i = 0, for 1≦ i ≦ N , the Cauchy problem (1.1) arises in control theory of continuous-time jump linear quadratic systems [ 9–11 ]. Algorithms for solving the above particular case can be found in [12]]. These methods yield approximations to the solution. Without knowing the explicit expression of the solutions and in order to avoid the error accumulation it is interesting to know an explicit expression for the exact solution. In Section 2, we obtain an explicit expression of the solution of the Cauchy problem (1.1) and of two-point boundary value problems related to the system arising in (1.1). Stability conditions for the solutions of the system of (1.1) are given. Because of developed techniques this paper can be regarded as a continuation of the sequence [ 3, 4, 5, 6 ].