Abstract
This brief note reports the fundamental phenomenon of implicit
multivaluedness exhibited from one output to the other of two
node-systems with a common input—referred to as counter-cascaded1
systems—under the appropriate conditions. The novel concepts of
immanence and transcendence are introduced upon which the formulation
and prove of a necessary and sufficient condition for multivaluedness are
based; this is the main result of this note. Next, subsequent
consequences of this result are presented. Among these is the fact that
this result also holds for cascaded generalized systems.
The novel application of structural complexity reduction in directed
networks presented next, demonstrates the utility of multivaluedness and
is itself a contribution to the theory of signals and systems.
The significance of the work presented here is that it contributes toward
the theory of systems and networks as well as toward the arsenal of
tools for studying networks.