Application of the Drazin inverse to the analysis of pointwise completeness and pointwise degeneracy of descriptor fractional linear continuous–time systems

Abstract

The Drazin inverse of matrices is applied to the analysis of pointwise completeness and pointwise degeneracy of fractional descriptor linear continuous-time systems. It is shown that (i) descriptor linear continuous-time systems are pointwise complete if and only if the initial and final states belong to the same subspace, and (ii) fractional descriptor linear continuoustime systems are not pointwise degenerated in any nonzero direction for all nonzero initial conditions. The discussion is illustrated with examples of descriptor linear electrical circuits.

Keywords

• pointwise completeness
• pointwise degeneracy
• fractional systems
• descriptor systems