Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 272 (2014) 273

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Corrigendum

Corrigendum to ‘‘A comparison of Filippov sliding vector

fields in codimension 2’’ [J. Comput. Appl. Math. 262 (2014)
161–179]
Luca Dieci ∗ , Fabio Difonzo
School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA

The authors regret that there was a mistake in the statement of Theorem 3.4. The correction follows.

In the statement and proof of Theorem 3.4, the value of c has to be replaced with

−µ⊤ Rv ±(µ⊤ Rv)2 − (µ⊤ Rµ)(v ⊤ Rv)

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c= .
v ⊤ Rv
We have to take the appropriate ± sign so that c ∈ [a, b]. In particular, if we let p(x) be the polynomial
p(x) := x2 v ⊤ Rv + 2xµ⊤ Rv + µ⊤ Rµ,
the correct ± sign is the opposite sign of p(a).

This correction impacts also the value of γ in the stated Theorem, and proof, which should be simply given as γ =
− b−1 a (a − c ).

The revised proof is as follows.

Proof. One needs to solve for c from the relation λ⊤
B RλB = 0. This gives the quadratic equation for c:

c 2 v ⊤ Rv + 2c µ⊤ Rv + µ⊤ Rµ = 0,
and the appropriate root is the one identified above. 

The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused by their careless proofreading.

DOI of original article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cam.2013.10.055.

∗ Corresponding author.
E-mail address: dieci@math.gatech.edu (L. Dieci).

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