An improved sufficient condition for asymptotic stability developed for the monotone nonlinearity is
![\\Re [Z(j\\omega ) (G(j\\omega ) + 1/k_{2})]](/images/tex/4601.gif)
or
![\\Re [Z(j\\omega ,) \\bar(G(j\\omega ) + 1/k_{2})] \\geq 0](/images/tex/4602.gif)
where

and

. Examples of allowed

functions are considered which show that the angle of

is permitted to take on both positive and negative values outside the

band. The approach used in deriving the above results is a general one which reduces the problem of obtaining sufficient conditions for asymptotic stability to one of obtaining a bound for a cross-correlation function

in terms of

. As an example, a sufficient condition for asymptotic stability is developed for a continuous nonlinearity having a monotone bound which appears to have considerable practical application.