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In mathematics, a Hurwitz matrix, or Routh–Hurwitz matrix, in engineering stability matrix, is a structured real square matrix constructed with coefficients of a real polynomial.

Hurwitz matrix and the Hurwitz stability criterion[edit]

Namely, given a real polynomial

p(z)=a_{0}z^{n}+a_{1}z^{n-1}+\cdots +a_{n-1}z+a_{n}

the $n\times n$ square matrix

H={\begin{pmatrix}a_{1}&a_{3}&a_{5}&\dots &\dots &\dots &0&0&0\\a_{0}&a_{2}&a_{4}&&&&\vdots &\vdots &\vdots \\0&a_{1}&a_{3}&&&&\vdots &\vdots &\vdots \\\vdots &a_{0}&a_{2}&\ddots &&&0&\vdots &\vdots \\\vdots &0&a_{1}&&\ddots &&a_{n}&\vdots &\vdots \\\vdots &\vdots &a_{0}&&&\ddots &a_{n-1}&0&\vdots \\\vdots &\vdots &0&&&&a_{n-2}&a_{n}&\vdots \\\vdots &\vdots &\vdots &&&&a_{n-3}&a_{n-1}&0\\0&0&0&\dots &\dots &\dots &a_{n-4}&a_{n-2}&a_{n}\end{pmatrix}}.

is called Hurwitz matrix corresponding to the polynomial $p$ . It was established by Adolf Hurwitz in 1895 that a real polynomial with $a_{0}>0$ is stable (that is, all its roots have strictly negative real part) if and only if all the leading principal minors of the matrix $H(p)$ are positive:

{\begin{aligned}\Delta _{1}(p)&={\begin{vmatrix}a_{1}\end{vmatrix}}&&=a_{1}>0\\[2mm]\Delta _{2}(p)&={\begin{vmatrix}a_{1}&a_{3}\\a_{0}&a_{2}\\\end{vmatrix}}&&=a_{2}a_{1}-a_{0}a_{3}>0\\[2mm]\Delta _{3}(p)&={\begin{vmatrix}a_{1}&a_{3}&a_{5}\\a_{0}&a_{2}&a_{4}\\0&a_{1}&a_{3}\\\end{vmatrix}}&&=a_{3}\Delta _{2}-a_{1}(a_{1}a_{4}-a_{0}a_{5})>0\end{aligned}}

and so on. The minors $\Delta _{k}(p)$ are called the Hurwitz determinants. Similarly, if $a_{0}<0$ then the polynomial is stable if and only if the principal minors have alternating signs starting with a negative one.

Hurwitz stable matrices[edit]

In engineering and stability theory, a square matrix $A$ is called a Hurwitz matrix if every eigenvalue of $A$ has strictly negative real part, that is,

\operatorname {Re} [\lambda _{i}]<0\,

for each eigenvalue $\lambda _{i}$ . $A$ is also called a stable matrix, because then the differential equation

{\dot {x}}=Ax

is asymptotically stable, that is, $x(t)\to 0$ as $t\to \infty .$

If $G(s)$ is a (matrix-valued) transfer function, then $G$ is called Hurwitz if the poles of all elements of $G$ have negative real part. Note that it is not necessary that $G(s),$ for a specific argument $s,$ be a Hurwitz matrix — it need not even be square. The connection is that if $A$ is a Hurwitz matrix, then the dynamical system

{\dot {x}}(t)=Ax(t)+Bu(t)

y(t)=Cx(t)+Du(t)\,

has a Hurwitz transfer function.

Any hyperbolic fixed point (or equilibrium point) of a continuous dynamical system is locally asymptotically stable if and only if the Jacobian of the dynamical system is Hurwitz stable at the fixed point.

The Hurwitz stability matrix is a crucial part of control theory. A system is stable if its control matrix is a Hurwitz matrix. The negative real components of the eigenvalues of the matrix represent negative feedback. Similarly, a system is inherently unstable if any of the eigenvalues have positive real components, representing positive feedback.

References[edit]

Asner, Bernard A. Jr. (1970). "On the Total Nonnegativity of the Hurwitz Matrix". SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics. 18 (2): 407–414. doi:10.1137/0118035. JSTOR 2099475.
Dimitrov, Dimitar K.; Peña, Juan Manuel (2005). "Almost strict total positivity and a class of Hurwitz polynomials". Journal of Approximation Theory. 132 (2): 212–223. doi:10.1016/j.jat.2004.10.010. hdl:11449/21728.
Gantmacher, F. R. (1959). Applications of the Theory of Matrices. New York: Interscience.
Hurwitz, A. (1895). "Ueber die Bedingungen, unter welchen eine Gleichung nur Wurzeln mit negativen reellen Teilen besitzt". Mathematische Annalen. 46 (2): 273–284. doi:10.1007/BF01446812. S2CID 121036103.
Khalil, Hassan K. (2002). Nonlinear Systems. Prentice Hall.
Lehnigk, Siegfried H. (1970). "On the Hurwitz matrix". Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Physik. 21 (3): 498–500. Bibcode:1970ZaMP...21..498L. doi:10.1007/BF01627957. S2CID 123380473.

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"Hurwitz matrix". PlanetMath.

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