“…However, the focus was mainly on stability criteria for linear systems [9,30,60,65,84], be it Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals [28,35,74], Lyapunov-Razumikhin functions [35], comparison principles [17,33,64], inputoutput approaches [8], or eigenvalue calculations [7,26,41,43]. By contrast, in technical applications, we encounter nonlinear systems [22,23,68,72,85]. Indeed, for a nonlinear system the Principle of Linearized Stability [21] allows to deduce stability or instability of equilibria, but the question arises: what is the practical relevance of knowledge about asymptotic stability if there is no knowledge about the domain of attraction?…”