“…Meyer and Burrus 1975, Araki and Yamamoto 1986, Tarn et al 1988, Colaneri et al 1990, Ravi et al 1990, Dahleh et al 1992, Longhi 1994, in this paper the proof of the necessity of a continuoustime internal model of the exogenous exponential-sinusoidal signals (with the only exception of the constant ones) in order to achieve a continuous-time convergence to zero of the error response, will be extended to the case when multirate holding and sampling mechanisms, and periodic stabilizing discrete-time compensators, are used, instead of single-rate and time-invariant ones, respectively (Franklin and Emami-Naeini 1986, Urikura and Nagata 1987, Yamamoto 1994, Graselli et al 1996; it will be proven both for when the dead-beat convergence of the error response and state free response is required at the nominal parameters, and for when a mere exponential convergence with a prescribed rate of decay is required. Although such a necessity is largely intuitive, its formal derivation will turn out to be technically awkward because of the hybrid framework.…”