Year: 2008
Volume: 3
Issue: 1

Oscillation theorems for certain fourth order nonlinear difference equations

Author:
Said R. Grace¹, Ravi P. Agarwal², Raffaella Pavani³, E. Thandapani⁴
Total Page Count: 15
Page Number: 71 to 85

¹Department of Engineering Mathematics, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Orman, Giza, 12221, Egypt

²Department of Mathematical Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL 32901, USA

³Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy

⁴Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, University of Madras, Chepauk, Chennai — 600 005, India

AMS subject classification: 39A10.

Abstract

We establish some new sufficient conditions for the oscillation of solutions of fourth order nonlinear difference equations and when

Keywords

Difference equation, oscillation, nonoscillation, comparison