“…To solve this BMI, we can use the branch and bound methods proposed in [40] or the homotopy‐based algorithm in [41]. Remark 5 It is worth noting that to apply the fractional stability Lyapunov theorem, the proposed L–K functional must be positive definite, however, the authors of [42, 43] proposed L–K functional which is obviously not positive definite: the first functional is non‐negative, the second functional is obviously not greater than , for some . Therefore, the use of the fractional stability theorem for system (1) in these papers is incorrect.…”