Reachability in Linear Dynamical Systems

  • Authors:
  • Emmanuel Hainry

  • Affiliations:
  • LORIA, Université Henri Poincaré, Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France 54506

  • Venue:
  • CiE '08 Proceedings of the 4th conference on Computability in Europe: Logic and Theory of Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Dynamical systems allow to modelize various phenomena or processes by only describing their local behaviour. It is however useful to understand the behaviour in a more global way. Checking the reachability of a point for example is a fundamental problem. In this document we will show that this problem that is undecidable in the general case is in fact decidable for a natural class of continuous-time dynamical systems: linear systems. For this, we will use results from the algebraic numbers theory such as Gelfond-Schneider's theorem.