A Lyapunov approach to discrete-time linear consensus

A Lyapunov approach is developed to establish the convergence rates of discrete-time linear consensus. The approach combines the use a quadratic time-varying comparison function and an adjoint dynamics of the linear consensus dynamics. New convergence rate results are obtained that are characterized with an explicit dependence on the graph structure including the longest shortest path.

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