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Asymptotic behavior of a third-order nonlinear neutral delay differential equation
Journal of Inequalities and Applications volume 2014, Article number: 512 (2014)
Abstract
The objective of this paper is to study asymptotic nature of a class of third-order neutral delay differential equations. By using a generalized Riccati substitution and the integral averaging technique, a new Philos-type criterion is obtained which ensures that every solution of the studied equation is either oscillatory or converges to zero. An illustrative example is included.
MSC:34K11.
1 Introduction
In this work, we study the oscillation and asymptotic behavior of a third-order nonlinear neutral differential equation with variable delay arguments
where is an integer and . We assume that the following hypotheses are satisfied.
(A1) , , , and for , ;
(A2) , , and ;
(A3) , ;
(A4) there exist constants such that for and .
Throughout, we define
By a solution of equation (1), we mean a function , , which has the properties , , and satisfies (1) on . We consider only those solutions x of (1) which satisfy assumption for all . We assume that (1) possesses such solutions. A solution of (1) is called oscillatory if it has arbitrarily large zeros on ; otherwise, it is termed nonoscillatory.
As is well known, the third-order differential equations are derived from many different areas of applied mathematics and physics, for instance, deflection of buckling beam with a fixed or variable cross-section, three-layer beam, electromagnetic waves, gravity-driven flows, etc. In recent years, the oscillation theory of third-order differential equations has received a great deal of attention since it has been widely applied in research of physical sciences, mechanics, radio technology, lossless high-speed computer network, control system, life sciences, and population growth.
Numerous research activities are concerned with the oscillation of solutions to different functional differential equations, for some related contributions, we refer the reader to [1–16] and the references cited therein. In the following, we provide some background details regarding the study of various classes of neutral differential equations. Baculíková and Džurina [3] studied a second-order neutral differential equation
Agarwal et al. [1], Grace et al. [7], and Zhang et al. [16] considered a third-order nonlinear differential equation
Baculíková and Džurina [4], Candan [5, 6], Karpuz [8], Li and Rogovchenko [9], Li and Thandapani [10], and Li et al. [11, 12] investigated a class of third-order neutral differential equations
Define and , . It follows from conditions (A1) and (A3) that , , and , . Hence, equation (3) is a special case of (1). As a matter of fact, equation (1) reduces to the form of (3) if and .
There are two techniques in the study of oscillation of third-order neutral differential equations. One of them is comparison method which is used to reduce the third-order neutral differential equations to the first-order differential equations or inequalities; see, e.g., [8–10]. Another technique is the Riccati technique; see, e.g., [4–6, 10–12]. In this paper, using a generalized Riccati substitution which differs from those reported in [4–6, 10–12], a new asymptotic criterion for (1) is presented. In what follows, all functional inequalities are tacitly supposed to hold for all sufficiently large t.
2 Some lemmas
Lemma 1 Assume that conditions (A1)-(A4) hold and x is a positive solution of (1). Then there are only the following two possible cases for z defined by (2):
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(I)
, , , , and ;
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(II)
, , , , and ,
for , where is sufficiently large.
Proof The proof is similar to that of Baculíková and Džurina [[4], Lemma 1], and hence is omitted. □
Lemma 2 Assume that conditions (A1)-(A4) hold and let x be a positive solution of (1) and corresponding z satisfy case (II) in Lemma 1. If
then .
Proof Suppose that x is a positive solution of (1). Since and , there exists a finite constant such that . We shall prove that . Assume now that . Then for any , there exists a such that for . Choose . It is not hard to find that
where . Using (1) and (5), we conclude that
Integrating (6) from t to ∞, we obtain
Noting that , we get
Integrating (7) from t to ∞, we have
Integrating (8) from to ∞, we deduce that
which contradicts (4). Hence, and . Then it follows from that . The proof is complete. □
Lemma 3 (See [[4], Lemma 3])
Assume that , , and for . If , , and , then for every , there exists a such that for .
Remark 1 If u satisfies conditions of Lemma 3, then for when using conditions (A1) and (A3).
Lemma 4 (See [[4], Lemma 4])
Assume that , , , and for . Then for each , there exists a such that for .
Remark 2 If u satisfies conditions of Lemma 4, then for when using condition (A3).
3 Main results
We use the integral averaging technique to establish a Philos-type (see Philos [13]) criterion for (1). Let
We say that a function belongs to the class X if
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(i)
, , , ;
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(ii)
H has a nonpositive continuous partial derivative on with respect to the second variable, and there exist functions , , and such that
(9)
Theorem 1 Assume that conditions (A1)-(A4) and (4) are satisfied. If
holds for some , , and for some , where
then every solution x of (1) is either oscillatory or satisfies .
Proof Suppose to the contrary and assume that (1) has a nonoscillatory solution x. Without loss of generality, we can assume that there exists a such that , , and for and . By Lemma 1, we observe that z satisfies either (I) or (II) for , where is large enough. We consider each of the two cases separately.
Assume first that case (I) holds. It follows from that
Using (1) and (12), we deduce that
Define a generalized Riccati substitution by
Then we have
By virtue of (14), we conclude that
Substituting (13) and (16) into (15), we obtain
It follows from Remarks 1 and 2 that, for any and ,
. Combining (17) and (18), we get
where G is defined as in (11), , and . Replacing in the latter inequality t with s, multiplying both sides by and integrating with respect to s from some () to t, we derive from and (9) that
and hence
which contradicts condition (10).
Assume now that case (II) holds. By virtue of Lemma 2, . This completes the proof. □
Corollary 1 The conclusion of Theorem 1 remains intact if condition (10) is replaced by the assumptions
and
As an application of Theorem 1, we provide the following example.
Example 1 For , consider a third-order neutral delay differential equation
Let , , and . It is not difficult to verify that all assumptions of Theorem 1 are satisfied. Hence, every solution x of (19) is either oscillatory or satisfies . As a matter of fact, one such solution is .
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The authors are grateful to the editors and two anonymous referees for a very thorough reading of the manuscript and for pointing out several inaccuracies. This research is supported by NNSF of P.R. China (Grant No. 61403061) and the AMEP of Linyi University, P.R. China.
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Jiang, Y., Li, T. Asymptotic behavior of a third-order nonlinear neutral delay differential equation. J Inequal Appl 2014, 512 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1186/1029-242X-2014-512
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Keywords
- asymptotic behavior
- third-order neutral differential equation
- oscillation
- generalized Riccati substitution