Quadratic stability with real and complex perturbations

It is shown that the equivalence between real and complex perturbations in the context of quadratic stability to linear, fractional, unstructured perturbations does not hold when the perturbations are block structured. For a limited class of problems, quadratic stability in the face of structured complex perturbations is equivalent to a particular class of scaled norms, and hence appropriate synthesis techniques, coupled with diagonal constant scalings, can be used to design quadratically stable systems