Bi-stability conjecture for the fluid model

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Let xx be a fluid solution with initial condition x(0)x(0), let O{\cal O} be the set of initial conditions whose trajectories oscillate indefinitely, and let u∗u^* denote a periodic equilibrium when it exists. Let Su∗{\cal S}_{u^*} be the stability set of u∗u^*, and let S\mathbb{S} be the state space. Bi-stability conjecture. If x(0)∈Ox(0) \in {\cal O}, then there exists a unique periodic equilibrium u∗u^* and xx converges to u∗u^* as in the paper's definition of convergence. Consequently, Sx0∗∪Su∗=S{\cal S}_{x_0^*} \cup {\cal S}_{u^*}=\mathbb{S}, so the fluid model is bi-stable and every fluid trajectory converges to one of the two equilibria as t→∞t\to\infty. The conjecture asserts that all indefinitely oscillating fluid trajectories converge to the unique periodic equilibrium; together with the proved convergence of non-oscillating trajectories to the unique stationary point, this would establish global bi-stability of the fluid limit. Further context on what is known beyond these results is not provided in the source.

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Ohad Perry and Ward Whitt, “A Switching Fluid Limit of a Stochastic Network Under a State-Space-Collapse Inducing Control with Chattering”, arXiv:1407.7053 (2014).

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