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On the Oscillatory Behavior of a Class of Fourth-Order Nonlinear Differential Equation

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Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
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Center of Excellence in Theoretical and Computational Science (TaCS-CoE) and Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, King Mongkuts University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), 126 Pracha Uthit Rd., Bang Mod, Thung Khru, Bangkok 10140, Thailand
3
Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, China Medical University, Taichung 40402, Taiwan
4
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Hadhramout University, Hadhramout 50512, Yemen
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Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Education, Seiyun University, Hadhramout 50512, Yemen
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
These authors contributed equally to this work.
Symmetry 2020, 12(4), 524; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym12040524
Submission received: 12 February 2020 / Revised: 12 March 2020 / Accepted: 17 March 2020 / Published: 2 April 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations: Theory and Applications)

Abstract

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In this work, we study the oscillatory behavior of a class of fourth-order differential equations. New oscillation criteria were obtained by employing a refinement of the Riccati transformations. The new theorems complement and improve a number of results reported in the literature. An example is provided to illustrate the main results.

1. Introduction

In this paper, we are concerned with the oscillation and the asymptotic behavior of solutions of the fourth-order nonlinear differential equation
r t x t α + q t x β σ t = 0 ,
where α and β are quotient of odd positive integers, r C 1 [ t 0 , ) , q C [ t 0 , ) , r t > 0 , q t > 0 , r t 0 , σ t C [ t 0 , ) , R , σ t t , lim t σ t = . Moreover, we study (1) under the condition
t 0 1 r 1 / α s d s = .
We intend to a solution of (1) a function x ( t ) : [ t x , ) R , t x t 0 such that x ( t ) and r t x t α are continuously differentiable for all t [ t x , ) and sup { x ( t ) : t T } > 0 for any T t x .We assume that (1) possesses such a solution. A solution y is said to be non-oscillatory if it is eventually positive or eventually negative; otherwise, it is said to be oscillatory. (1) is said to be oscillatory if all its solutions are oscillatory. The equation itself is called oscillatory if all of its solutions are oscillatory.
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For several decades, an growing interest in studying the oscillation and non-oscillation criteria of different classes and different orders of differential equations with delay has been observed; see, for instance, the monographs [2,3], the papers [4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26], and the references cited therein.
The purpose of this paper is to give new sufficient conditions for the oscillatory behavior of (1). In Section 2, we will provide some auxiliary lemmas that will help us to prove our oscillation criteria. In Section 3, by employing a refinement of the Riccati transformations, we establish new oscillation criteria of (1).

2. Auxiliary Lemmas

Notation 1.
Here, we introduce Riccati substitutions
ω 1 t : = r t x t α x α t
and
ω 2 t : = x t x t .
Moreover, for convenience, we denote that
Q t : = M 1 β α q t σ 3 α t t 3 α , R 1 t : = α μ 2 t 2 r 1 / α t ,
and
R ˜ t : = λ β / α M 2 β α t 1 r u u q s σ s s β d s 1 / α d u ,
where μ , λ 0 , 1 and M 1 , M 2 are positive constants.
All functional inequalities are assumed to hold eventually, that is, they are assumed to be satisfied for all t sufficiently large. We begin with the following lemmas that can be found in [2,8,16,18], respectively.
Lemma 1.
Let h C n t 0 , and h t > 0 . Suppose that h n t is of a fixed sign, on t 0 , , h n t not identically zero and that there exists a t 1 t 0 such that, for all t t 1 ,
h n 1 t h n t 0 .
If we have lim t h t 0 , then there exists t λ t 0 such that
h t λ n 1 ! t n 1 h n 1 t ,
for every λ 0 , 1 and t t λ .
Lemma 2.
If the function x satisfies x ( i ) t > 0 , i = 0 , 1 , . . . , n , and x n + 1 t < 0 , then
x t t n / n ! x t t n 1 / n 1 ! .
Lemma 3.
Assume that α is a quotient of odd positive integers. Then
U y V y α + 1 / α α α α + 1 α + 1 U α + 1 V α , V > 0 .
Lemma 4.
Assume that (2) is satisfied and let x t be an eventually positive solution of (1). Then, there exists a sufficiently large t 1 t 0 such that for all t t 1 , either
S 1 x κ t > 0 f o r κ = 0 , 1 , 2 , 3 ;
or
S 2 x κ t > 0 f o r κ = 0 , 1 , 3 , a n d x t < 0 ,
is holds.
Lemma 5.
Let x t is an eventually positive solution of Equation (1).
(i1)
If x satisfies S 1 , then
ω 1 t + Q t + R 1 t ω 1 1 + 1 / α t 0 ;
(i2)
If x satisfies S 2 , then
ω 2 t + ω 2 2 t + B β α R ˜ t 0 .
Proof. 
Let that x t is an eventually positive solution of Equation (1). From Lemmas 4, there exist two possible cases S 1 and S 2 for t t 1 large enough.
Let S 1 holds. Then, taking Lemma 1 and 2 into account, we arrive at
x t μ 2 t 2 x t
and x t 1 3 t x t . Hence,
x σ t σ 3 t t 3 x t .
Differentiating ω 1 and using (1), (6) and (7), we obtain
ω 1 t q t σ 3 α t t 3 α x β α σ t α μ 2 t 2 r 1 / α t ω 1 1 + 1 / α t .
Since x t > 0 , there exist a t 2 t 1 and a constant B > 0 such that x t > B , for all t t 2 . Thus, we see that
ω 1 t q t σ 3 α t t 3 α B β α σ t α μ 2 t 2 r 1 / α t ω 1 1 + 1 / α t ,
Thus, (4) is satisfied.
Let S 2 holds. Integrating (1) from t to l , we have
r l x l α = r t x t α t l q s x β σ s d s .
Taking Lemma 2 into account, we arrive at
x t t x t .
Thus, x σ t σ t / t x t , which with (8) and the fact that x t > 0 gives
r l x l α r t x t α + x β t t l q s σ s s β d s 0 .
Letting l , we obtain
x t λ β / α r 1 / α t x β / α t t q s σ s s β d s 1 / α .
Integrating the above inequality from t to , we obtain
x t λ β / α x β / α t t 1 r u u q s σ s s β d s 1 / α d u R ˜ t x β / α t .
Differentiating ω 2 and using (10), we get
ω 2 t + ω 2 2 t + B β α R ˜ t 0 .
Thus, the proof is complete. □

3. Oscillation Criteria

Theorem 1.
If
t 0 Q s d s =
and
t 0 R ˜ s d s = ,
then (1) is oscillatory.
Proof. 
Assume to the contrary that (1) has a nonoscillatory solution in t 0 , . Without loss of generality, we can assume that x t > 0 . From Lemma 4 that there exist two possible cases for t t 1 , where t 1 t 0 is sufficiently large.
For case S 1 , from Lemma 5, we see that (4) holds, which yields
ω 1 t + Q t 0 .
Integrating (13) from t 2 to t and using (11),we obtain
ω 1 t ω 1 t 2 t 2 t Q s d s as t ,
which contradicts the fact that ω 1 t > 0 .
Similarly, in the case where S 2 holds, we get a contradicts with (12), which is omitted here for convenience. Therefore, the proof is complete. □
Definition 1.
The sequence of functions y n t n = 0 and z n t n = 0 define as
y n t = y 0 t + t R 1 s y n 1 α + 1 α s d s
and
z n t = z 0 t + t z n 1 2 s d s ,
where
y 0 t = t Q s d s
and
z 0 t = t R ˜ s d s .
Theorem 2.
Assume that
lim inf t 1 y 0 t t R 1 s y 0 α + 1 α s d s > α α + 1 α + 1 α
and
lim inf t 1 z 0 t t z 0 2 s d s > 1 4 .
Then, (1) is oscillatory.
Proof. 
Assume to the contrary that (1) has a nonoscillatory solution in t 0 , . Without loss of generality, we can assume that x t > 0 . From Lemma 4 that there exist two possible cases for t t 1 , where t 1 t 0 is sufficiently large.
Let case S 1 holds. By using Lemma 5, we obtain (4). Integrating (4) from t to l, we get
ω 1 l ω 1 t + t l Q s d s + t l R 1 s ω 2 α + 1 α s d s 0 .
From (18), it is obvious that
ω 1 l ω 1 t + t l R 1 s ω 1 s d s 0 .
Then we conclude from (19) that
t R 1 s ω 1 s d s < , for t T ,
otherwise,
ω 1 l ω 1 t t l R 1 s ω 1 s d s as l ,
which contradicts to the fact that ω 1 t > 0 . Since ω 1 t is positive and decreasing lim t ω 1 t = k 0 . By virtue of (20), we have k = 0 . Thus, from (18), we have
ω 1 t Q ˜ t + t R 1 s ω 1 s d s = y 0 t + t R 1 s ω 1 s d s .
From (21), we have
ω 1 t y 0 t 1 + 1 y 0 t t R 1 s y 0 α + 1 α s ω 1 s y 0 s α + 1 α d s , t T .
If we set δ = inf t T ω 1 t / y 0 t , then obviously δ 1 . Hence, from (16) and (22) we see that
δ 1 + α δ α + 1 α + 1 / α
or
δ α + 1 1 α + 1 + α α + 1 δ α + 1 α + 1 / α
which contradicts the admissible value of δ and α .
Similarly, in case S 2 , if we set δ 1 = inf t T 1 ω t / z 0 t and taking (17) into account, then we arrive at a contradicts with the admissible value of δ 1 . Therefore, the proof is complete. □
Theorem 3.
Assume that there exist some y n and z n such that
lim sup t y n t μ 2 t 2 t 0 t r 1 / α s d s α > 1
and
lim sup t t z n t > 1 ,
hold. Then (1) is oscillatory.
Proof. 
Assume to the contrary that (1) has a nonoscillatory solution in t 0 , . Without loss of generality, we can assume that x t > 0 . From Lemma 4 that there exist two possible cases for t t 1 , where t 1 t 0 is sufficiently large.
Let case S 1 holds. Taking Lemma 1 into account, we arrive at
x t μ 6 t 3 x t .
From the definition of ω and (25), we have
1 ω 1 t = 1 r t x t x t α 1 r t μ 6 t 3 α
Thus,
ω 1 t 1 r t μ 6 t 3 α 1
and
lim sup t ω 1 t μ t 3 6 r 1 / α t α 1 ,
which contradicts (23).
Similarly, in case S 2 , we arrive at a contradicts with (24). Therefore, the proof is complete. □
Corollary 1.
If there exist y n and z n such that
T t Q s exp T s R 1 u y n 1 / α u d u d s =
and
T t R ˜ s exp T s z n u d u d s = ,
hold, then (1) is oscillatory.
Proof. 
Assume to the contrary that (1) has a nonoscillatory solution in t 0 , . Without loss of generality, we can assume that x t > 0 . From Lemma 4 that there exist two possible cases for t t 1 , where t 1 t 0 is sufficiently large.
Let case S 1 hold. Proceeding as in the proof of Theorem 2, we obtain (21). From (21), we have
ω 1 t y 0 t .
Moreover, by induction we can also see that ω 1 t y n t for t t 0 , n = 1 , 2 , 3 , . . . . Thus, since the sequence y n t 0 monotone increasing and bounded above, it converges to y t . Letting n in (14) and using Lebesgues monotone convergence theorem, we obtain
y t = y 0 t + t R 1 s y α + 1 α s d s .
From (29), we have that
y t = R 1 t y α + 1 α t Q t .
Since y n t y t , it follows from (30) that
y t R 1 t y n 1 / α t y t Q t .
Hence, we get
y t exp T t R 1 s y n 1 / α s d s y T T t Q s exp T s R 1 u y n 1 / α u d u d s .
The above inequality follows
T t Q s exp T s R 1 u y n 1 / α u d u d s y T < ,
which contradicts (27).
Similarly, in case S 2 , we arrive at a contradiction with (28). Therefore, the proof is complete. □
Example 1.
Consider the equation
x 4 t + q 0 t 4 x 1 2 t = 0 ,
where q 0 > 0 . We note that α = β = 1 , r t = 1 , σ t = t / 2 and q t = q 0 / t 4 . Hence, it is easy to see that
y 0 = q 0 24 t
and
z 0 t = q 0 2 t .
Thus, by using Theorem 2, Equation (31) is oscillatory if q 0 > 36 . However, we note that Q s d s , and hence, Theorem 1 fails.
Remark 1.
Theorem 1 introduces a criterion in traditional form · d s = . Howeover, Theorem 2 provides a better criterion which can be applied to different equations. While, we can use Theorem 3 if Theorem 2 fails.
Remark 2.
Agarwal et al. [27] studied the oscillation properties of the higher-order equation
x n 1 t α 1 x n 1 t + q t f x σ t = 0 ,
under the condition (2). From Theorem 2.1 in [27], Equation (31) is oscillatory if q 0 > 96 . Thus, our results improve the results in [27].

4. Conclusions

New criteria for oscillation of fourth-order delay differential equations are established. By employing a refinement of the Riccati transformations, we obtain new oscillation criteria that improve some related results and can be used in cases where known theorems fail to apply. By applying our results to an example, we show that our results improved the results in [27]. Furthermore, in future work, we can try to study the oscillation properties of the neutral case by the same approach as that used in this work.

Author Contributions

The authors claim to have contributed equally and significantly in this paper. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

The authors received no direct funding for this work.

Acknowledgments

The author thanks the reviewers for for their useful comments, which led to the improvement of the content of the paper.

Conflicts of Interest

There are no competing interests between the authors.

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