Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA)

SIGMA 15 (2019), 063, 16 pages      arXiv:1902.00598      https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2019.063

Dynamic Equivalence of Control Systems and Infinite Permutation Matrices

Jeanne N. Clelland a, Yuhao Hu a and Matthew W. Stackpole b
a) Department of Mathematics, 395 UCB, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0395, USA
b) Maxar Technologies, 1300 W. 120th Ave, Westminster, CO 80234, USA

Received February 05, 2019, in final form August 20, 2019; Published online August 26, 2019

Abstract
To each dynamic equivalence of two control systems is associated an infinite permutation matrix. We investigate how such matrices are related to the existence of dynamic equivalences.

Key words: dynamic equivalence; control systems.

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