Variational principles of continuum mechanics: Introduction by V. Komkov

By V. Komkov

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26) defined by a sequence of linear bounded and positive operators the exponential stability is equivalent to the boundedness of the solution with the zero initial value of the forward affine equation xk+1 = Lk xk + ξ. We recall that in the general case of a discrete-time linear equation if we want to use Perron’s theorem to characterize the exponential stability we have to check the boundedness of the solution with zero initial value of the forward affine equation xk+1 = Lk xk + fk for arbitrary bounded sequence {fk }k≥0 ⊂ X .

3 it follows that | · |ξ is a norm on X . 8). Hence (X , | · |ξ ) is a Banach space. 2 Discrete-time equations defined by positive operators 29 P1 . If x, y, x ∈ X are such that y ≤ x ≤ z then |x|ξ ≤ max{|y|ξ , |z|ξ }. 11) P2 . 12) and |ξ|ξ = 1. If Y is a Banach space, T : Y → Y is a linear bounded operator, and | · | is a norm on Y, then T = sup|x|≤1 |T x| is the corresponding operator norm. 2 (a) Because |·|ξ and |·|2 are equivalent, then · ξ and · 2 are also equivalent. This means that there are two positive constants c1 and c2 such that c1 T ξ ≤ T 2 ≤ c2 T ξ for all linear bounded operators T : X → X .

If x ∈ ∞ (Z, X ) we denote |x| = supk∈Z |xk |ξ . Let ∞ (Z, X + ) ⊂ ∞ (Z, X ) be the subset of bounded sequences {xk }k∈Z ⊂ + X . It can be checked that ∞ (Z, X + ) is a solid, closed, convex cone. 11 in [30] are fulfilled. Now we are in position to prove the following. 8 Let {Lk }k∈Z , {Gk }k∈Z be sequences of positive linear bounded operators such that {Gk }k∈Z is a bounded sequence. Under these conditions the following are equivalent. 49) l=−∞ T (k, l) being the linear evolution operator on X defined by the sequence {Lk }k∈Z .

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