Port-Hamiltonian descriptor systems are relative generically controllable and stabilizable

Abstract The present work is a successor of Ilchmann and Kirchhoff (Math Control Signals Syst 33:359–377, 2021) on generic controllability and of Ilchmann and Kirchhoff (Math Control Signals Syst 35:45–76, 2022) on relative generic controllability of linear differential-algebraic equations. We extend the result from general, unstructured differential-algebraic equations to differential-algebraic equations of port-Hamiltonian type. We derive results on relative genericity. These findings are the basis for characterizing relative generic controllability of port-Hamiltonian systems in terms of dimensions. A similar result is proved for relative generic stabilizability.