Uniqueness of Circuits and Systems Containing One Nonlinearity

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, TAC-30(7):674-681, July 1985.
Also in Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, 58:101-119, June 1983.

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We study systems containing one memoryless nonlinearity. We show that two such systems have the same I/O operator only when they are related by simple scaling, delay, and loop transformations. The theory is applied to one-port networks containing one nonlinear element.