Interconnection of Dirac structures via kernel/image representation

Orest V. Iftime*, Adrian Sandovici

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    Abstract

    Dirac structures are used to mathematically formalize the power-conserving interconnection structure of physical systems. For finite-dimensional systems several representations are available and it is known that the composition (or interconnection) of two Dirac structures is again a Dirac structure. It is also known that for infinite-dimensional systems the composition of two Dirac structures may not be a Dirac structure.

    In this paper, the theory of linear relations is used in the first instance to provide different representations of infinite-dimensional Dirac structures (on Hilbert spaces): an orthogonal decomposition, a scattering representation, a constructive kernel representation and an image representation. Some links between scattering and kernel/image representations of Dirac structures are also discussed. The Hilbert space setting is large enough from the point of view of the applications. Further, necessary and sufficient conditions (in terms of the scattering representation and in terms of kernel/image representations) for preserving the Dirac structure on Hilbert spaces under the composition (interconnection) are also presented. Complete proofs and illustrative example(s) will be included in a follow up paper.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the American control conference (ACC)
    Place of PublicationNEW YORK
    PublisherIEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
    Pages3571-3576
    Number of pages6
    ISBN (Print)978-1-4577-0081-1
    Publication statusPublished - 2011
    EventAmerican Control Conference (ACC) - , Canada
    Duration: 29-Jun-20111-Jul-2011

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of the American Control Conference
    PublisherIEEE
    ISSN (Print)0743-1619

    Other

    OtherAmerican Control Conference (ACC)
    Country/TerritoryCanada
    Period29/06/201101/07/2011

    Keywords

    • HAMILTONIAN-FORMULATION
    • SYSTEMS

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