Partitioned Mixed Small Gain-Phase Decentralized Stability Criterion for Power Systems

arXiv:2608.03641 2026 Dynamics 1 ideas extracted · analyzed Aug 31, 2026

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The paper provides a decentralized stability mechanism for heterogeneous feedback networks: different subsystems may be certified by different frequency-domain certificates instead of forcing every subsystem to satisfy either small-gain or small-phase conditions. Its transferable asset is a partitioned robustness certificate combining contraction-like gain bounds with sector and phase bounds, while requiring only local subsystem measurements and a network-level admissibility test. A direct neural-network use is to treat recurrent, implicit, or equilibrium networks as feedback interconnections of heterogeneous blocks, assigning strongly contractive blocks to the gain-certified partition and phase-structured blocks to the phase-certified partition. The resulting certificate predicts a sharp stability boundary as the product of gain bounds approaches one or as aggregate phase approaches pi.

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Partitioned Gain-Phase Stable Neural Feedback

Build a recurrent or equilibrium network as a feedback interconnection of heterogeneous blocks, certifying some blocks through induced-gain bounds and others through phase or sector bounds. This avoids imposing a uniformly small Lipschitz constant on all blocks: dissipative or strongly contractive blocks use gain certificates, while approximately skew, oscillatory, attention-like, or state-space blocks use phase certificates. The network is accepted only when the local certificates satisfy the…

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Paper: Partitioned Mixed Small Gain-Phase Decentralized Stability Criterion for Power Systems arXiv:2608.03641