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by creatornator 2271 days ago
Lyapunov functions indicate Lyapunov stability. A system that is Lyapunov Stable will settle into a global minimum state and stay there stably indefinitely. Kind of like a ball in a bowl, where all gradients point in to the middle. Non linear systems can "refuse to settle". I may be misremembering something from my controls courses