I am looking for a generic estimate to the following problem coming from biology: I am solving the ODE $$y'(t)=Ay(t)+zf(t), y(0)=0.$$ where $f$ is an external force determined by us and $z$ a constant vector. Now $A$ and $z$ come from some measurement, so in general they will be perturbed $\widetilde{A}$ and $\widetilde{z}.$ That is, I am actually solving $$x'(t)=\widetilde{A}x(t)+\widetilde{z}f(t), x(0)=0$$ on my computer. Recall that by the Laplace transform the solution to these equations is actually very simple: $$\widehat{y}(t) = (t-A)^{-1}z\widehat{f}(t)$$ $$\widehat{y}(t) = (t-\widetilde{A})^{-1}\widetilde{z}\widehat{f}(t).$$ For small times, we can actually measure how close our model is to the true solution, that is by applying arbitrary forces in $L^1$ to the system we find for $t \in [0,T]$ $$\left\lVert y(t)-x(t) \right\rVert \le C \left\lVert f \right\rVert_{L^1[0,T]}$$ Obviously, if any matrix $A$ or $\widetilde{A}$ had positive eigenvalues one could not say anything about the long-term dynamics, because there could be exponentially growing modes. So we assume that both $A$ and $\widetilde{A}$ have only strictly negative eigenvalues. Given that the error is known to satisfy a Lipschitz estimate for small times $t \in [0,T]$ and arbitrary controls in $L^1$. Can we obtain any sharp ab-initio long-time estimates $t \in [0,\infty]$ of the form $$\left\lVert y(t)-x(t) \right\rVert \le \widehat{C} \left\lVert f \right\rVert_{L^1[0,\infty]}$$ on this problem? By ab-initio I mean estimates only depending on $C,\widetilde{A}$ and $\widetilde{z}$? EDIT: If there was something like this for any other $L^p$ space, I'd be interested as well.