Multistability in Monotone I/O Systems, Preliminary Report

We extend the setup in our previous paper to deal with the case in which more than one steady state may exist in feedback configurations. This provides a foundation for the analysis of multi-stability and hysteresis behaviour in high dimensional feedback systems.

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