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Contractivity of the Method of Successive Approximations for Optimal Control
Kevin D. Smith, Francesco Bullo
Strongly contracting dynamical systems have numerous properties (e.g., incremental ISS), find widespread applications (e.g., in controls and learning), and their study is receiving…
Dual Seminorms, Ergodic Coefficients and Semicontraction Theory
Giulia De Pasquale, Kevin D. Smith, Francesco Bullo +1
Dynamical systems that are contracting on a subspace are said to be semicontracting. Semicontraction theory is a useful tool in the study of consensus algorithms and dynamical flow…
Convex Optimization of the Basic Reproduction Number
Kevin D. Smith, Francesco Bullo
The basic reproduction number is a fundamental quantity in epidemiological modeling, reflecting the typical number of secondary infections that arise from a single infected i…
A Tutorial on Multivariate -Statistics and their Computation
Kevin D. Smith
This document aims to provide an accessible tutorial on the unbiased estimation of multivariate cumulants, using -statistics. We offer an explicit and general formula for multiv…
Topology Inference with Multivariate Cumulants: The Möbius Inference Algorithm
Kevin D. Smith, Saber Jafarpour, Ananthram Swami +1
Many tasks regarding the monitoring, management, and design of communication networks rely on knowledge of the routing topology. However, the standard approach to topology mapping-…
Transient Stability of Droop-Controlled Inverter Networks with Operating Constraints
Kevin D. Smith, Saber Jafarpour, Francesco Bullo
Due to the rise of distributed energy resources, the control of networks of grid-forming inverters is now a pressing issue for power system operation. Droop control is a popular co…
Flow and Elastic Networks on the -torus: Geometry, Analysis, and Computation
Saber Jafarpour, Elizabeth Y. Huang, Kevin D. Smith +1
Networks with phase-valued nodal variables are central in modeling several important societal and physical systems, including power grids, biological systems, and coupled oscillato…