On the Nonexistence of Quadratic Lyapunov Functions for Consensus Algorithms

We provide an example proving that there exists no quadratic Lyapunov function for a certain class of linear agreement/consensus algorithms, a fact that had been numerically verified in . We also briefly discuss sufficient conditions for the existence of such a Lyapunov function.

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