Lyapunov Instability for Discontinuous Differential Equations

Abstract

The present work studies the Lyapunov instability for discontinuous differential equations through the use of the notion of Carathéodory solution to differential equations. From Lyapunov's first instability theorem and Chetaev's instability theorem, which deal with instability to ordinary differential equations, two Lyapunov instability results for discontinuous differential equations are obtained.

Keywords

• Discontinuous differential equations; Carathéodory solutions; Lyapunov stability; Instability.