Intrinsic Nonlinear Model Reduction
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Standard number systems are $\mathbb N,\mathbb Z,\mathbb Q,\mathbb R,\mathbb C$. Specialized notation and index ranges follow the cited source and the definitions below.A state-space system evolves as $\dot x=f(x,u)$ with output $y=h(x,u)$. Model reduction seeks a lower-dimensional system preserving specified input-output properties. Observability distinguishes initial states from their output trajectories, while controllability concerns reachable states under allowed inputs.
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The catalogue title is retained as metadata. Named certificates, contracts, bounds or frameworks in that title are not asserted as results of the original source extract. The system class, energy functions, state embedding for restrictions, and meaning of intrinsic are source-dependent; neither function is replaced by a linear-system Gramian.Source-record limitation: The nonlinear system class, controllability/observability energy functions, and restriction embeddings are not defined.
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Is there an intrinsic scheme for nonlinear model reduction? Is there a scheme such that both the controllability and observability functions of the reduced-order model are the restrictions of the corresponding functions of the full-order model? [S2]Source status.
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Find a coordinate-independent reduction that preserves both the nonlinear controllability and observability functions as restrictions.Sources
- S1 Ulam AI and the UnsolvedMath Contributors, UnsolvedMath: A Curated Collection of Open Mathematics Problems, record 30000194 (OWR-792-007). Catalogue curation and metadata: CC BY 4.0. The source extract is retained; definitions, English summaries and qualifications are editorial additions. https://huggingface.co/datasets/ulamai/UnsolvedMath.
- S2 Regelungstheorie (2005), Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2005/11, pp. 565--645 https://doi.org/10.4171/owr/2005/11.
- S3 covariance-based nonlinear reduction https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959152402000240.
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Intrinsic Nonlinear Model Reduction
Definitions and mathematical statement
Shared notation.
Standard number systems are $\mathbb N,\mathbb Z,\mathbb Q,\mathbb R,\mathbb C$. Specialized notation and index ranges follow the cited source and the definitions below.A state-space system evolves as $\dot x=f(x,u)$ with output $y=h(x,u)$. Model reduction seeks a lower-dimensional system preserving specified input-output properties. Observability distinguishes initial states from their output trajectories, while controllability concerns reachable states under allowed inputs.
Record scope and qualifications.
The catalogue title is retained as metadata. Named certificates, contracts, bounds or frameworks in that title are not asserted as results of the original source extract. The system class, energy functions, state embedding for restrictions, and meaning of intrinsic are source-dependent; neither function is replaced by a linear-system Gramian.Source-record limitation: The nonlinear system class, controllability/observability energy functions, and restriction embeddings are not defined.
Statement recorded in the supplied source.
Is there an intrinsic scheme for nonlinear model reduction? Is there a scheme such that both the controllability and observability functions of the reduced-order model are the restrictions of the corresponding functions of the full-order model? [S2]Source status.
The supplied catalogue labels this source record partially solved; that metadata was checked against the supplied snapshot on 2026-10-11. The label is preserved for provenance and is not an independent verification of present open status or mathematical correctness. The catalogue literature assessment is dated 2026-08-21.Short English statement
Find a coordinate-independent reduction that preserves both the nonlinear controllability and observability functions as restrictions.Sources
- S1 Ulam AI and the UnsolvedMath Contributors, UnsolvedMath: A Curated Collection of Open Mathematics Problems, record 30000194 (OWR-792-007). Catalogue curation and metadata: CC BY 4.0. The source extract is retained; definitions, English summaries and qualifications are editorial additions. https://huggingface.co/datasets/ulamai/UnsolvedMath.
- S2 Regelungstheorie $2005$, Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2005/11, pp. 565--645 https://doi.org/10.4171/owr/2005/11.
- S3 covariance-based nonlinear reduction https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959152402000240.
- Source-specific Oberwolfach Reports licences, including CC BY-SA 4.0 where applicable, are retained; see THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.
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Use the report's energy definitions: controllability energy is the least $\frac12\int_{-\infty}^0\|u(t)\|^2dt$ needed to reach a given state from zero in the remote past; observability energy is $\frac12\int_0^\infty\|y(t)\|^2dt$ under zero input. For the explicit stable full system \[ \dot x=-x+u,\qquad y=x,\qquad x,u,y\in\mathbb R^2, \] make the invertible nonlinear change $z_1=x_1$, $z_2=x_2-x_1^2$. Drop $z_2$ and evaluate the first transformed equation and output on $z_2=0$. This produces $\dot z=-z+u_1$ and $y=(z,z^2)$, with embedding $\iota(z)=(z,z^2)$.Proposition: The full energies are $E_c(x)=\|x\|^2$ and $E_o(x)=\|x\|^2/4$. The truncated model has $\widehat E_c(z)=z^2$ and $\widehat E_o(z)=z^2/4+z^4/8$. Neither is the corresponding full energy restricted along $\iota$, except at $z=0$.
Proof: For each coordinate, reaching $x(0)=x_0$ requires $x_0=\int_{-\infty}^0 e^t u(t)dt$. Cauchy--Schwarz gives $x_0^2\le(\int e^{2t}dt)(\int u^2dt)=\frac12\int u^2dt$. Equality is achieved by $u(t)=2x_0e^t$, whose corresponding state tends to zero as $t\to-\infty$. Summing coordinates proves $E_c(x)=\|x\|^2$. Under zero input the state is $e^{-t}x$, and integration yields $E_o(x)=\frac12\|x\|^2\int_0^\infty e^{-2t}dt=\|x\|^2/4$. In the reduced scalar state equation the same one-coordinate calculation gives $\widehat E_c(z)=z^2$; an unused second input, if retained in the interface, is optimally zero. Under zero input its output is $(ze^{-t},z^2e^{-2t})$, so integrating half its squared norm gives $z^2/4+z^4/8$. The restricted full energies are $z^2+z^4$ and $(z^2+z^4)/4$, respectively. Their differences from the reduced energies are $z^4$ and $z^4/8$, positive for every nonzero $z$. ∎
Thus coordinate deletion, even after a globally invertible smooth change of variables, does not automatically preserve either energy as a restriction. In the original coordinates retaining the first axis instead yields a different embedding and matching energies for that simpler restriction. The failure is specifically of this naive truncation route; it is not an impossibility proof for an intrinsically chosen nonlinear reduced manifold.Verification and remaining gaps
The quadratic and quartic integrals were evaluated, and at $z=1$ the controllability values are 1 versus 2 and observability values $3/8$ versus $1/2$. This example has a linear full model in nonlinear coordinates, sufficient to test coordinate dependence but not a proposed general nonlinear reduction. No intrinsic scheme satisfying both source requirements was constructed or excluded.References and source attribution
Primary workshop report: https://doi.org/10.4171/owr/2005/11. Relevant passages read: 2005/11 pp. 599--601, controllability/observability energies and the intrinsic reduction questions.All retrievals were checked on 11 October 2026. Original question attribution remains in the preserved Sources section. External theorems are attributed and not claimed as new discoveries or fully verified merely by citation.
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