Systems with Partially Freezed Components

Abstract

We study a particular class of switching systems called systems with partially freezed components. Fix an autonomous system of differential equations and consider a family of systems obtained from it by replacing some of components of the right-hand side by zeros (thus, “freezing” some components of a solution). We obtain the flow of a system with partially freezed components by fixing a sequence of switching times and of the corresponding sets of “active” components (i.e., the components that are not “freezed”). Such a sequence is called a freezing sequence. Systems with partially freezed components appear, for example, in the study of generalized Turing machines. In this paper, we are mostly interested in stability properties of such systems; our main goal is to relate such properties to properties of the generating system and freezing sequences.