Let l and m be natural numbers with l≥2 and m≥1, let Δl⊂Rl be the probability simplex, let A be a nonempty subset of Euclidean space Rm that is convex and compact for the topology determined by the Euclidean distance, called the control set, and let K0 be a nonnegative real number. For a real-valued function f on an open subset of Rl we write ∂if for the partial derivative of f with respect to the i-th coordinate, and ∂i′∂if for ∂i′ applied to the function ∂if.
Twice continuously differentiable affine-controlled rate data on l states with control set A and derivative bound K0 is a triple (U,βˉ0,βˉ1) consisting of an open, convex, bounded set U⊆Rl with Δl⊂U and two families of functions
βˉ0(σ,γ,⋅):U→R,βˉ1(σ,γ,⋅):U→Rm,
indexed by the ordered pairs (σ,γ) with σ,γ∈{1,…,l} and σ=γ, such that the following hold for every such pair, where βˉ1k denotes the k-th component of βˉ1 for k∈{1,…,m}, and where f denotes any one of the 1+m real-valued functions βˉ0(σ,γ,⋅),βˉ11(σ,γ,⋅),…,βˉ1m(σ,γ,⋅) on U:
1. (Nonnegativity.) βˉ0(σ,γ,Σ)+βˉ1(σ,γ,Σ)⋅α≥0 for every Σ∈Δl and every α∈A, where x⋅y denotes the dot product.
2. (Regularity.) f is a C1 map on U, and for every i∈{1,…,l} the partial derivative ∂if is again a C1 map on U.
3. (Bounds.) ∣f(Σ)∣≤K0, ∣∂if(Σ)∣≤K0 and ∣∂i′∂if(Σ)∣≤K0 for all i,i′∈{1,…,l} and all Σ∈U.
4. (Uniform continuity of second derivatives.) For every real ε>0 there is a real δ>0 such that ∣∂i′∂if(Σ)−∂i′∂if(Σ′)∣≤ε for all i,i′∈{1,…,l} and all Σ,Σ′∈U whose Euclidean distance satisfies d(Σ,Σ′)≤δ.