Abstract
In this paper, we aimed to study some asymptotic properties of a class of third-order neutral differential equations with advanced argument in canonical form. We provide new and simplified oscillation criteria that improve and complement a number of existing results. We also show some examples to illustrate the importance of our results.
1. Introduction
The study of functional differential equations (FDEs) and their symmetric properties is one of the most important studies, as it has been, and still is, the focus of attention of researchers for its effective role in the understanding and interpreting of real-world phenomena. As it is not easy to find solutions in their closed forms, studying the properties of solutions is one of the best ways to understand and analyze the phenomena; see [1,2,3].
In particular, delay differential equations (DDEs) are defined as giving the derivative of an unknown function at a certain time in terms of the values of the function at previous times, and are referred to in the literature as delay systems or systems with delay arguments. The mathematical modeling that includes DEs with a delay has been extensively studied in different fields of life sciences, such as, for example, immunology, population dynamics, epidemiology, neural networks, and physiology. For more details, see [4,5,6,7,8] and the references therein. This delay may be related to a certain period of hidden processes, as can be seen in the time interval between the infection of cells and the production of new viruses, the duration of the immunity period, and the duration of the infection period in the stages of the life cycle.
Recently, advanced differential equations (ADEs) have been used to model some phenomena whose development depends not only on the present, but also on the future. Whereas delays in DDEs are retrospective, in relation to the past, developments in ADEs are prospective in the future (i.e., taking into account the effect on any possible future actions that are currently available). For instance, it is believed that economic problems, population dynamics, or mechanical control engineering are among the phenomena in which such a phenomenon may occur (see [9,10] for details).
The importance of oscillation theory has evolved into a widely used numerical mathematical method in many disciplines and fields of technology. Finding better conditions to ensure the oscillation of the solutions of any DE is one of the most important and prominent goals of this theory, as attested to by its many studies that have appeared over the past decades. See the following references: [11,12,13,14,15].
The study of second-order ADEs has received relatively more attention compared to higher-order ADEs. For example, the following linear advanced differential equation of the second order
has been discussed in [16,17].
Furthermore, Dzurina [18] studied the oscillatory behavior of the ADE
in canonical form and presented some new oscillation criteria.
We also found a number of similar studies and results that we refer the reader to [19,20,21,22].
There is a very limited amount of literature that studies the oscillatory behavior of third-order ADEs. Yao et al. in [23], discussed some results of the oscillation of the equation
They offered some conditions that ensure that the solutions of Equation (1) are either oscillatory or converge to zero, where
Furthermore, Dzurina and Baculikova [24] presented some results, in canonical form, that complement the previous oscillation results for equation
In this work, we study some properties of third-order nonlinear DEs with an advanced argument of the form
where ℓ is a quotient of odd positive integers. Furthermore, we applied our results to the following ADEs:
and
We assumed the following conditions:
- (H1)
- does not vanish identically and
- (H2)
- such that , ∀ where .
Definition 1
([11]). A solution of (2) means , , which satisfies the property and (2) on We consider the solutions of (2) existing on some half-line and satisfy
Such a solution is called oscillatory if it has arbitrarily large zeros on ; otherwise, it is said to be nonoscillatory. Equation (2) itself is said to be oscillatory if all its solutions are oscillatory.
In this paper, we aimed to study some asymptotic properties of a class of third-order neutral DEs with advanced argument in canonical form. First, we classified the derivatives of the nonoscillatory (positive) solutions of the Equation (2) and presented some new monotonic properties. Next, by means of these properties, we were able to obtain relationships between the solution and the corresponding function of Equation (2). We used these new relationships to exclude positive increasing solutions. The results of this paper are an improvement of, and complement to, a number of existing results. We also show some examples to illustrate the importance of our results.
The paper is organized as follows. In Section 1, we present the importance of oscillation theory in many disciplines and fields of technology, which is the starting point of this paper. After that, in Section 2, we give some conditions and auxiliary results that are used in Section 3, where there are some new oscillation results of the studied equation in canonical form. We also present some examples and their discussions to illustrate the significance of our findings in Section 4. We end with Section 5, addressing the conclusions and future works, and posing an interesting open question.
2. Auxiliary Lemmas
We show here some auxiliary results that are used in the theorems that follow. For ease, we use the following notation:
and
Lemma 1.
Proof.
This means that is decreasing and has a fixed sign. If , then is is decreasing and negative. This contradiction is
Definition 2.
Lemma 2.
Assume that is a solution of (2). Then
Moreover, assume that . Then
Proof.
That is
and
Using (H2) in (2), we have
Furthermore,
Since and it follows that
On the other hand, since and we obtain
This ends the proof. □
Lemma 3.
Assume that and are positive and increasing. Then
3. Main Results
In this section, we present some new criteria that ensure that property N holds.
Theorem 1.
Assume that . If
where
then property N holds.
Proof.
Define
Since that is
and
That is
By (7), and taking into account that implies
By using , we have
Hence, we obtain
By (20), we find that
Integrating from ⊤ to ∞, we obtain
or
According to the fact , we note that
This implies
Set
This contradicts the fact that the function is positive for all . This completes the proof. □
Corollary 1.
If
then property (N) holds.
Proof.
Corollary 2.
If
then property N holds.
Theorem 2.
Proof.
Since property N holds, then satisfies Case (I) and implies that
We claim that , if not, then .
Let . Integrating (8) from ⊤ to ∞ and using , we obtain
Using , we have
Thus, (31) becomes
Integrating (32) from ⊤ to ∞, we find
Integrating again from to ∞, we see that
There is a contradiction with (29). That is □
Now, for the next result, we define a sequence as follows:
and
Theorem 3.
Assume that there ∃ some such that
for some Then property N holds.
Proof.
Let be a solution of (2) and satisfying Case (II). As in the proof of Theorem 1, we see that (24) holds. Using (24) and it is easy to note that . Thus,
By induction, we find that sequence is nondecreasing and . So the sequence converges to . Let , then, by means of the Lebesgue monotone theorem, (33) becomes
Taking into account we obtain
That is,
Thus, we have
This is a contradiction with (34). The proof is complete. □
Theorem 4.
Assume that there ∃ some such that
Then property N holds.
Proof.
Therefore,
This contradicts (35). □
The following corollaries are immediate by putting and in Theorem 4.
Corollary 3.
Assume that
Then property N holds.
Corollary 4.
Assume that
Then property N holds.
4. Application
Example 1.
Consider the following third-order differential equations
That is
and
By means of Theorem 1, we see that (38) has property N if
Example 2.
Consider the following differential equation
By means of Theorem 1, we see that (39) has property N if
Remark 1.
Putting in Example 1, we notice that the condition for property N depends mainly on the greatness of the advanced argument. We see that in Example 2 is greater than in Example 1 and this allows the function to be reduced.
Example 3.
Consider the third-order nonlinear ADE
On the other hand, when applying Theorem 2, note that (29) holds. Hence, every nonoscillatory solution of (39) converges to zero as .
Remark 2.
Furthermore, all previous results are also correct for the Equation (3). To discuss these results, we provide the following example:
Example 4.
Consider the third-order ADE
where , and . By applying Corollary 1, Corollary 2 and Theorem 1, respectively, (43) have property N if
5. Conclusions
We, herein, presented a study on the monotonic properties and oscillatory behavior of Equation (2). We presented a number of relationships that link the solution of the Equation (2) and the corresponding function. These relationships are applicable in the two cases of positive nonoscillatory solutions of the studied equation. Then, we used the relationships to obtain conditions that ensured that there were no nonoscillatory solutions of type (II). Through examples, we clarified the importance of our results.
It would be interesting to study Equation (2) in a more general form, such as:
It would also be worthwhile to discuss obtaining the oscillation criteria of Equation (2) without condition .
Author Contributions
Conceptualization, L.F.I. and B.Q.; methodology, B.Q. and E.M.E.; validation, M.A., B.Q. and L.F.I.; investigation, M.A., B.Q., L.F.I. and E.M.E.; resources, B.Q. and E.M.E.; data curation, M.A., B.Q., L.F.I. and E.M.E.; writing—original draft preparation, M.A. and B.Q.; writing—review and editing, L.F.I. and E.M.E.; visualization, L.F.I. and B.Q.; supervision, L.F.I. and B.Q.; project administration, B.Q.; funding acquisition, L.F.I. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This research was funded by the University of Oradea.
Data Availability Statement
Not available.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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