“…An absolute stability criterion for (1.1) is a sufficient condition for stability, usually formulated in terms of frequency-domain properties of the linear system given by (A, B, C) and sector or boundedness conditions for f , guaranteeing stability for all nonlinearities f satisfying these conditions. Traditionally, Lyapunov approaches to the stability theory of systems of the form (1.1) consider the uncontrolled (v = 0) case, whilst Lur'e systems with forcing (usually acting through B, that is, v is of the form v = Bw for some w) have been studied using the input-output framework initiated by Sandberg and Zames in the 1960s; see, for example, [11,45]. More recently, forced Lur'e systems have been analyzed in the context of input-to-state stability (ISS) theory, see [4,19,20,36].…”