I'm Trying to help in this question which involves Algebraic Ricatti equation. Honestly to say I never met this equation before.
I'm struggling to understand the conditions stated in the limitations of the dare algorithm in matlab. For convinience I quote it here:
The $(A, B)$ pair must be stabilizable (that is, all eigenvalues of $A$ outside the unit disk must be controllable). In addition, the associated symplectic pencil must have no eigenvalue on the unit circle. Sufficient conditions for this to hold are $(Q, A)$ detectable when $S = 0$ and $R > 0$, or $$\begin{bmatrix} Q & S \\ S^T & R \end{bmatrix}>0$$
All $A,B,S$ are matrices ($S=0$ in my case ), so I don't understand how a matrix can be greater then zero? Is this is special notations for positive definite matrix?
This is just a notation for positive definite matrix. Several works use this $>$ instead of $\succ$. In the context of control theory both notations mean the same thing.