Advances in Dynamical Systems and Applications

  • Year: 2008
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 1

Some oscillation results for second order functional dynamic equations1

  • Author:
  • Lynn Erbe, Raegan Higgins
  • Total Page Count: 16
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 73 to 88

Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, 68588-0130, USA

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the second-order nonlinear dynamic equation on a time scale 핋. Our goal is to establish some new oscillation and non-oscillation results for this equation. Here we assume that τ (t) ≤ t ≤ ξ (t) and τ, ξ: 핋 → 핋, and use the notation xτ (t) = x (τ (t)), xσ (t) = x (σ (t)) and xξ (t) = x (ξ (t)). We apply results from the theory of lower and upper solutions for related dynamic equations along with some additional estimates on the positive solutions.

Keywords

Oscillation, second-order nonlinear dynamic equation, time scale, Riccati transformation technique