Remarks on continuous feedback. Sontag, E. & Sussmann, H. In Proc. IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, Albuquerque, Dec.1980, pages 916–921, 1980.
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We show that, in general, it is impossible to stabilize a controllable system by means of a continuous feedback, even if memory is allowed. No optimality considerations are involved. All state spaces are Euclidean spaces, so no obstructions arising from the state space topology are involved either. For one dimensional state and input, we prove that continuous stabilization with memory is always possible. (This is an old conference paper, never published in journal form but widely cited nonetheless. Warning: file is very large, since it was scanned.)
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   AUTHOR       = {E.D. Sontag and H.J. Sussmann},
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   ABSTRACT     = { We show that, in general, it is impossible to stabilize 
      a controllable system by means of a continuous feedback, even if 
      memory is allowed. No optimality considerations are involved. All 
      state spaces are Euclidean spaces, so no obstructions arising from 
      the state space topology are involved either. For one dimensional 
      state and input, we prove that continuous stabilization with memory 
      is always possible. (This is an old conference paper, never published 
      in journal form but widely cited nonetheless. Warning: file is very 
      large, since it was scanned.) }
}

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