Lyapunov analysis, which uses monotonicity of a given function of system state along trajectories of a given dynamical system, is a major tool of nonlinear system analysis It is possible, however, to use monotonicity of volumes of subsets of the state space to predict certain properties of system behavior. This lecture gives an introduction to suc methods
where f:R\×Rn×R→ R\ and g:R\×R\×R→ R are continuous functions. Assume that f, g are continuously differentiable with respect to their first two arguments in a neigborhood of the trajectory co(t), yo(t), and that the derivative