“…BAI The continuous Sylvester equation (1.1) has numerous applications in control and system theory [30,36,39], stability of linear systems [22], analysis of bilinear systems [32], power systems [25], linear algebra [16], signal processing [1], image restoration [11], filtering [21,23], model order reduction [35], numerical methods for differential equations [8,9], iterative methods for algebraic Riccati equations [7,[18][19][20]30], matrix nearness problem [34,41], finite element model updating [13,26], block-diagonalization of matrices [16,31] and so on. Many of these applications lead to stable Sylvester equations, i.e., Assumption (A 3 ) made in the above is satisfied.…”