J Austral Math Soc Ser B 32 pp180--192, 1990.

Existence of nonoscillatory solutions of first order nonlinear neutral equations

Lu Wudu

(Received September 1989; revised February 1990)

Abstract

Consider the nonlinear neutral equation

m                                     n                     
(x(t) - å pi (t) x(hi(t)))' + å fj (t, x(gj(t))) = Q(t)
i=1                                  j=1                     

where pi (t), hi (t), gj (t), Q(t) Î C[t0, ¥), lim t®¥ hi (t) = ¥, lim t®¥ gj (t) = ¥, i Î Im = {1, 2, ¼, m}, j Î In = {1, 2, ¼, n}. We obtain a necessary and sufficient condition (2) for this equation to have a nonoscillatory solution x(t) with lim t®¥ inf |x(t)| > 0 (Theorems 5 and 6) or to have a bounded nonoscillatory solution x(t) with lim t®¥ inf |x(t)| > 0 (Theorem 7).

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Author

Lu Wudu
Department of Mathematics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, China.

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