An $L_T^2$-error bound for time-limited balanced truncation

Abstract

Model order reduction (MOR) is often applied to spatially-discretized partial differential equations to reduce their order and hence decrease computational complexity. A reduced system can be obtained, e.g., by time-limited balanced truncation, a method that aims to construct an accurate reduced order model on a given finite time interval $[0,T]$. This particular balancing related MOR technique is studied in this paper. An $L_T^2$-error bound based on the truncated time-limited singular values is proved and is the main result of this paper. The derived error bound converges (as $T\to \infty$) to the well-known ${\mathcal{H}}_{\infty }$-error bound of unrestricted balanced truncation, a scheme that is used to construct a good reduced system on the entire time line. The techniques within the proofs of this paper can also be applied to unrestricted balanced truncation so that a relatively short time domain proof of the ${\mathcal{H}}_{\infty }$-error bound is found here.