Cartesian products on Z-Matrix networks: Factorization and interval analysis
A. Chapman, M. Mesbahi
International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems
This chapter examines the relationship between the dynamics of large networks and of their smaller factor networks (factors) obtained through the factorization of the network’s digraph representation. We specifically examine dynamics of networks which have Z-matrix state matrices. We perform a Cartesian product decomposition on its network structure producing factors which also have Z-matrix dynamics. A factorization lemma is presented that represents the trajectories of the large network in terms of the factors’ trajectories. An interval matrix lemma provides families of network dynamics whose trajectories are bounded by the interval bounds’ factors’ trajectories.