Asymptotic Dichotomy in a Class of Fourth-Order Nonlinear Delay Differential Equations with Damping英文文献资料.docVIP

HindawiPublishingCorporation AbstractandAppliedAnalysis Volume2009,ArticleID484158,7pages doi:10.1155/2009/484158 ResearchArticle Asymptotic DichotomyinaClassof Fourth-OrderNonlinearDelayDifferential EquationswithDamping ChengminHou andSuiSunCheng 1 2 1Department ofMathematics, YanbianUniversity,Yanji133002,China 2Department ofMathematics, TsingHuaUniversity,Hsinchu30043,Taiwan Correspondence shouldbeaddressedtoSuiSunCheng,sscheng@.tw Received5December 2008;Revised15February2009;Accepted 26February2009 Recommended byAgacikZafer Allsolutionsofafourth-order nonlineardelaydi?erentialequationareshowntoconvergetozero ortooscillate.NovelRiccatitypetechniques involvingthird-orderlineardi?erentialequationsare employed. Implications inthede?ection ofelastichorizontal beamsarealsoindicated. Copyright q2009C.HouandS.S.Cheng. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction inanymedium,providedtheoriginalworkisproperlycited. 1.Introduction It has been observed that the solutions of quite a few higher order functional di?erential equationsoscillateorconvergetozerosee,e.g.,therecentpaper1.Suchadichotomymay sometimesyieldusefulinformationinrealproblemsseetheremarkattheendofthisnote. Inthispaper,wereportthatthesamephenomenaoccursforfourth-ordernonlineardelay di?erentialequationsoftheform p t yt qtfygt0, t∈I:a,∞, 1.1 4t  y where iaisanonnegativeconstant,pisanonnegativefunctioninCI,Rsuchthatitdoes notvanishidenticallyonanyT,∞?I; iiqisapositivefunctioninCI,R; iiig∈C1I,Rand0gtt, gt≥0fort∈Iandlimt→ ∞gt ∞; ivf ∈CR,Randfu/u≥κ0foru/0.  2 AbstractandAppliedAnalysis As is well known, fourth-order di?erential equations can be used to model the de?ection of a beam in particular, the function yt in 1.1 may be interpreted as the de?ection from the equilibrium position of a horizonta