Comments on "on the existence of stable, causal multipliers for systems with slope-restricted nonlinearities"

The above technical note presents a novel convex search within the Zames-Falb multiplier class. The aim of this correspondence is to correct the misuse of a relaxation on one condition in the search. This relaxation leads to nontrivial numerical errors in all six examples discussed in the technical note. Correct application of the conditions still gives an improvement over absolute stability criteria in the literature for at least one example, but some of the claims for lack of conservativeness in the above technical note should be moderated. © 2011 IEEE.