Universality and Control of Fat TailsMotivated by applications in hydrodynamics and networks of
thermostatically-control loads in buildings we study control of linear
dynamical systems driven by additive and also multiplicative noise of a general
position. Utilizing mathematical theory of stochastic multiplicative processes
we present a universal way to estimate fat, algebraic tails of the state vector
probability distributions. This motivates us to introduce and analyze
Mean-$q$-Power stability criterion, generalizing the mean-square stability
criterion, and then juxtapose these techniques to other, classic tools in
control.
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