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Zbl 1075.34028
Bohner, M.; Saker, S.H.
Oscillation of second order nonlinear dynamic equations on time scales.
(English)
[J] Rocky Mt. J. Math. 34, No. 4, 1239-1254 (2004). ISSN 0035-7596

The authors consider the nonlinear second order dynamic equation $$(p(t)x^\Delta)^\Delta+q(t)(f\circ x^\sigma)=0,\tag{1}$$ where $p$ and $q$ are positive, real-valued continuous functions, and the nonlinearity $f:\Bbb{R}\to\Bbb{R}$ satisfies the sign condition $xf(x)>0$ and the superlinearity condition $f(x)>K x$ for some $K>0$ and every $x\neq 0$. Two cases, depending on the convergence of the integral $$\int _1^\infty\frac 1{p(t)}\Delta t\tag{2}$$ are discussed separately. New sufficient conditions involving the integral over the coefficients of equation (1) which guarantee that all solutions are oscillatory (in the case when (2) is divergent) or either oscillatory or convergent to zero (in the case of convergence of the integral (2)) are derived. The sharpness of these criteria is shown on the example of the Euler dynamic equation. The authors' main tool is the Riccati transformation.
[Robert Mař\'ik (Brno)]
MSC 2000:
*34C10 Qualitative theory of oscillations of ODE: Zeros, etc.
39A12 Discrete version of topics in analysis
39A10 Difference equations

Keywords: dynamic equation; Riccati transformation; Riccati equation; oscillation; Kamenev-type criteria; Euler dynamic equation; measure chain; time scales

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