Operator-Norm Transfer and Cohomological Rigidity for Quaternionic Quasi-Lie Structures with Application to Sliding Mode $β$-Exponential Stability

Abstract

We develop operator-theoretic and cohomological tools for quaternionic quasi-Lie structures, with sliding mode control as a motivating application. Three main results are established. First, an exact operator-norm transfer under the quaternionic anti-isomorphism $a \mapsto \bar{a}$, which enables quantitative bounds from~\cite{Athmouni2026} to transfer between left- and right-module conventions with no constant factor. Second, a transcription of the cohomological rigidity result of~\cite{Athmouni2026} into a form usable here: in the homogeneous case, under a local cohomological non-obstruction hypothesis, an explicit bilinear correction $Ω$ produces a bracket satisfying the Jacobi identity exactly on a ball of admissible radius, with all quantitative constants expressed through $C_{2}$ and the admissible radius. Third, the projected Jacobi defect is shown to satisfy a generalized one-sided Lipschitz condition with computable constants, obtained via a uniform-selection argument handling state-dependence of the measurable selection. As an application, we develop a robust control framework with a cohomological matching condition replacing pointwise verification: an integral sliding surface yields $β$-exponential stability via an iterative linear matrix inequality (LMI) scheme. The work is purely analytical; closed-loop numerical simulations for multidimensional systems are deferred to a companion paper. The framework is restricted to the homogeneous quasi-Lie case; the Sobolev extension is conjectural, and algorithm termination is established conditionally on sufficient continuity assumptions on the LMI solution map.