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Compositions of passive boundary control systems

• We show under mild assumptions that a composition of internally well-posed, impedance passive (or conservative) boundary control systems through Kirchhoff type connections is also an internally well-posed, impedance passive (resp., conservative) boundary control system. The proof is based on results of Malinen and Staffans [21]. We also present an example of such composition involving Webster's equation on a Y-shaped graph.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 47A48; Secondary: 35R02, 47N70, 35L65.

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