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Keywords:
discrete event systems; order-preserving homogeneous maps
Summary:
Maps $f$ defined on the interior of the standard non-negative cone $K$ in ${\mathbb{R}}^N$ which are both homogeneous of degree $1$ and order-preserving arise naturally in the study of certain classes of Discrete Event Systems. Such maps are non-expanding in Thompson’s part metric and continuous on the interior of the cone. It follows from more general results presented here that all such maps have a homogeneous order-preserving continuous extension to the whole cone. It follows that the extension must have at least one eigenvector in $K-\lbrace 0\rbrace$. In the case where the cycle time $\chi (f)$ of the original map does not exist, such eigenvectors must lie in $\partial {K}-\lbrace 0\rbrace$.
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