For an infinite-dimensional continuous (or discrete)-time linear system, ba
sed on the study of the representation of nonnegative solutions of the alge
braic Riccati equation (ARE), we get some sufficient and necessary conditio
ns for a nonnegative solution of(ARE) to be isolated in the set of all nonn
egative solution of (ARE) with respect to the norm topology, the strong ope
rator topology and weak operator topology, respectively. (C) 1999 Elsevier
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