@inproceedings{ac2d1faeaa6d4062ba80a0f235d15f0d,
title = "A generalized chain rule and a bound on the continuity of solutions and converse Lyapunov functions",
abstract = "This paper gives a bound on the continuity of solutions to nonlinear ordinary differential equations. Continuity is measured with respect to an arbitrary Sobolev norm. This result is used to give a bound on the continuity of a common converse Lyapunov function. A major technical contribution of this paper is to give an explicit formula for nth-degree derivatives of the composition of differentiable mappings from ℝn to ℝn. This is a generalization of the formula of Faa di Bruno which dealt with differentiable mappings from ℝ to ℝ. It is expected that continuity bounds of the type given in this paper can be used to prove the existence of bounded-degree polynomial Lyapunov functions or give bounds on the Lyapunov exponent.",
author = "Peet, {Matthew M.}",
year = "2009",
doi = "10.1109/CDC.2009.5400414",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781424438716",
series = "Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "3155--3161",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control held jointly with 2009 28th Chinese Control Conference, CDC/CCC 2009",
note = "48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control held jointly with 2009 28th Chinese Control Conference, CDC/CCC 2009 ; Conference date: 15-12-2009 Through 18-12-2009",
}