Notation

Vectors

We will use lower case bold face letters for vectors. For example,

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is a column vector. It has n components. The transpose of y is

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where yT is a row vector. Also, y(t) means that each component of y is time dependent.

Function Vectors

A function vector is a vector of functions. For example, the n-component function vectors f(t) and g(y, u) are, respectively,

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where u is an m-component vector. The function arguments ...

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