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            | Alin Pogan, Ciprian Preda, and Petre Preda A discrete Lyapunov theorem for the exponential stability of evolution families |  | 
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                | Published: | October 6, 2005 |  
                | Keywords: | Evolution family, exponential stability, Lyapunov equation. |  
                | Subject: | 34D05, 34D20, 47D06 |  |  | 
 |  | Abstract 
			      
We propose a discrete time approach for the exponential stability of
evolution families on a Hilbert space by proposing a Liapunov-type
equation which involves only discrete time arguments.
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			  | Acknowledgements This research was done while the second author was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Dept. of Electrical Engineering of UCLA, U.S.A. Research supported in part under NSF Grant no. ECS-0400730
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			  | Author information Alin Pogan:Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, U.S.A
 pogan@math.missouri.edu
 
 Ciprian Preda:Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, U.S.A
 preda@ee.ucla.edu
 
 Petre Preda:Department of Mathematics, West University of Timişoara, Timişoara 300223, Romania
 preda@math.uvt.ro
 
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