Asymptotic decay of nonoscillatory solutions of general nonlinear difference equations英文文献资料.docVIP

PII.S0161171201006172 ASYMPTOTICDECAYOFNONOSCILLATORYSOLUTIONS OFGENERALNONLINEARDIFFERENCEEQUATIONS E.THANDAPANI, S.LOURDU MARIAN, andJOHNR.GRAEF (Received 10November 2000) Abstract. Theauthorsconsider themthordernonlinear di?erence equations oftheform D y +q f(yσ(n))=ei,where m≥1, n∈N={0,1,2,...},ain0for i=1,2,...,m?1, m n n am ≡ 1, D y = y , D y = ai?D y , i = 1,2,...,m, σ(n) → ∞ as n → ∞ , and n 0 n n i n n i?1 n f : R → R is continuous with uf(u) 0 for u = 0. They give su?cient conditions to ensure thatallbounded nonoscillatory solutions tendtozeroasn→∞without assuming
∞ {qn}ispositive, they prove another such result forallnonoscillatory solutions. /ai i , ,...,m q e ≡0 as is often required. If n that 1 =∞, =1 2 ?1, { } is positive, or n=0 n n 2000 Mathematics Subject Classi?cation. 39A10. 1. Introduction. Consider themthordernonlinear di?erence equation   Dmyn+qnf yσ(n) =ei, (1.1) where m≥1, n∈N={0,1,2,...}, {qn}, {en}, and {an1}, {an2}, ..., {amn?1} are real sequences, ai 0 for i=1,2,...,m?1 and all n∈N, am ≡1, D y =y , D y = n n 0 n n i n ai?D y fori=1,2,...,m,{σ(n)}isasequenceofpositiveintegerswithσ(n)→ n i?1 n ∞asn→∞,and f :R→Riscontinuous with uf(u)0for u=0.Throughout, we willassumethat ∞ ρ (s), i=1,2,...,m?1, ρ0(n)≡1, i?1 s ρi(n)= (1.2) (1.3) ai s=n+1 satis?es nlim→∞ρi(n)=0 fori=1,2,...,m?1. Notethatcondition (1.3)issatis?edif ∞ 1 ai n ∞ foreachi=1,2,...,m?1. (1.4) n=N By a solution of (1.1) we mean a nontrivial real sequence {yn} de?ned for n ≥ N0?min σ(n), N ∈N, and satisfying (1.1) for n≥N . Such a solution is said 0 0 1 2 1 n∈N to be oscillatory if for every N ∈ N there exist n ,n ∈ N with n2 n N and y y n1 n2 ≤0,anditissaidtobenonoscillatory otherwise. An important problem in the study of oscillation theory of di?erence equations is to determine su?cient conditions for all nonoscillatory solutions or all bounded nonoscil