We discuss the use of Kaniadakis’ κ-exponential in the construction of a statistical manifold modelled on Lebesgue spaces of real random variables. Some algebraic features of the deformed exponential models are considered. A chart is defined for each strictly positive densities; every other strictly positive density in a suitable neighborhood of the reference probability is represented by the c...

A necessary and suucient condition is proposed for the existence of a xed polynomial p(s) such that the rational function p(s)=q(s) is robustly strictly positive real when q(s) is a given Hurwitz polynomial with polytopic uncertainty. It turns out that the whole set of candidates p(s) is a convex subset of the cone of positive semideenite matrices, resulting in a straightforward strictly positi...

The square root function has a unique positive ¿xed point. This function has the following properties: it is strictly increasing and strictly concave, with sEf ' f, sE@ : @ for @ , and sEK K for K : . It is shown that any function from U to U satisfying these properties has a unique positive ¿xed point.

A new theory for the rational covariance extension problem (with degree constraint), or simply the RCEP, has recently emerged with applications in high-resolution spectral estimation, speech synthesis and possibly new applications in time series analysis and system identification. This paper establishes some new theoretical results on the RCEP via an alternative analysis. In one result we show ...

The notion of finite zeros of continuous-time positive linear systems is introduced. It is shown that such zeros are real numbers. It is also shown that a square positive strictly proper or proper system of uniform rank with observability matrix of full column rank has no finite zeros. The problem of zeroing the system output for positive systems is defined. It is shown that a square positive s...

This article provides sufficient conditions for positive maps on the Schatten classes Jp; 1 p < 1 of bounded operators on a separable Hilbert space such that a corresponding Perron-Frobenius theorem holds. With applications in quantum information theory in mind sufficient conditions are given for a trace preserving, positive map on J1, the space of trace class operators, to have a unique, stric...