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International Journal of Control, Vol.74, No.5, 425-431, 2001
On aperiodicity theorems
In this paper, researched by A. T. Fuller (deceased) and written by E. I. Jury, the necessary and sufficient conditions for aperiodicity which require the roots of a real polynomial to be real, simple, and confined to a specified interval on the real axis are presented in terms of four theorems. These theorems require a positivity test of a certain auxiliary polynomial in the specified interval on the real axis. One of these theorems is a generalization of an earlier published paper by Meerov and Jury (1998). An application of these theorems occurs when the real roots are to be confined to the interval (0,1), a condition related to discrete-time aperiodicity. Another application is related to stable aperiodic continuous-time systems where the real roots are to be confined (-infinity, 0). An example is presented to indicate the application for the discrete-time case. This paper also represents a generalization of Lipka Theorem (Lipka 1943).