Foster's reactance theorem
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Foster's reactance theorem
[′fȯs·tərz rē′ak·təns ‚thir·əm] (control systems)
The theorem that the most general driving point impedance or admittance of a network, in which every mesh contains independent inductance and capacitance, is a meromorphic function whose poles and zeros are all simple and occur in conjugate pairs on the imaginary axis, and in which these poles and zeros alternate.
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