Morphisms of tautological control systems

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate morphisms of tautological control systems. Given a tautological control system $\mathfrak{H}$ on the manifold N and a mapping $\Phi: M \to N$, we study existence of tautological control system $\mathfrak{G}$ on the manifold $M$ such that there exists a trajectory-preserving morphism $(\Phi, \Phi^ #)$ from $\mathfrak{G}$ to $\mathfrak{H}$. Sufficient conditions are given such that reachability of $\mathfrak{H}$ implies the reachability of $\mathfrak{G}$. Correspondence between the notion of lifting ordinary control systems and morphisms of tautological control systems are examined. We give an application of the above results to the class of second-order type control systems, where the special structure of second-order type leads to additional results.