Abstract
In this paper, we establish some new oscillation criteria for p-Laplacian delay dynamic equations with damping
on a time scale , here , with a, p and q are positive real-valued rd-continuous functions defined on . By using the Riccati transformation technique and integral averaging technique, some new sufficient conditions, which ensure that every solution oscillates, are established. Our results in this paper not only extend and improve the known results, but also unify the results about oscillation criteria for p-Laplacian delay differential equations with damping and p-Laplacian delay difference equations with damping.
MSC:34C10, 34K11, 39A21.
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1 Introduction
In this paper, we are concerned with the oscillation criteria for the following p-Laplacian delay dynamic equations with damping:
where , . Throughout this paper and without further mention, we formulate the following hypotheses:
(C1) are positive rd-continuous functions such that ;
(C2) , , for all , and is a time scale;
(C3) is a continuous function such that for some positive constant L, for all nonzero x.
The theory of time scales, which has recently received a lot of attention, was originally introduced by Stefan Hilger in his Ph.D. Thesis in 1988 in order to unify, extend and generalize continuous and discrete analysis (see Hilger [1]). A book on the subject of time scales by Bohner and Peterson [2, 3] summarizes and organizes much of the time scale calculus and many applications.
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in obtaining sufficient conditions for the oscillation and nonoscillation of solutions of various equations on time scales; we refer the reader to the papers [4–18] and the references cited therein. For the oscillation results for second-order nonlinear dynamic equations with damping term, see, for example, [19–26]. To the best of our knowledge, it seems to have few oscillation results for the p-Laplacian dynamic equations with damping term; we refer the reader to the paper [27].
A time scale is an arbitrary nonempty closed subset of real numbers ℝ, and the cases when this time scale is equal to the reals or to the integers represent the classical theories of differential and of difference equations. Not only does the new theory of the so-called dynamic equations unify the theories of differential equations and difference equations, but also it extends these classical cases to cases ‘in between’, for example, to the so-called q-difference equations when (which has important applications in quantum theory) and can be applied to different types of time scales like , and the space of the harmonic numbers.
Since we are interested in the oscillatory behavior of solutions near infinity, we make the assumption throughout this paper that the given time scale is unbounded above. We assume that and it is convenient to assume that . We define the time scale interval of the form by . We assume throughout that has the topology that it inherits from the standard topology on the real numbers ℝ.
On any time scale, we define the forward and backward jump operators by
where and .
A point is said to be left-dense if , right-dense if , left-scattered if and right-scattered if . A function is said to be rd-continuous provided g is continuous at right-dense points and at left-dense points in , left-hand limits exist and are finite. The set of all such rd-continuous functions is denoted by . The graininess function μ for a time scale is defined by and for any function , the notation denotes .
By a solution of Eq. (1.1), we mean a nontrivial real-valued function x satisfying Eq. (1.1) on . A solution x of Eq. (1.1) is said to be oscillatory on in case it is neither eventually positive nor eventually negative, otherwise it is nonoscillatory. Equation (1.1) is said to be oscillatory in case all its solutions are oscillatory. Our attention is restricted to those solutions of Eq. (1.1) which exist on some half-line and satisfy for all .
Erbe et al. [22] investigated some oscillation criteria for the second-order nonlinear dynamic equations with damping
which extended and improved some known results.
Saker et al. [23] considered the second-order dynamic equations with damping term of the form
and by means of the Riccati transformation technique, established some sufficient conditions for oscillation of (1.3).
Chen et al. [26] studied the oscillation behavior of a class of second-order dynamic equations with damping
where γ is a quotient of odd positive integers, and established some sufficient conditions for oscillation of (1.4).
By using the Riccati transformation technique, inequalities and the Chain rule , where is the delta derivative defined on and v is strictly increasing, Zhang [27] studied the oscillatory behavior of all solutions of Eq. (1.1).
Note that the results in [27] are based on the condition , which can be a restrictive condition and it is not easy to satisfy. For instance, when and letting , then τ is a strictly increasing function, and , but , so the condition in [27] does not hold and the results in [27] may not be true.
Hence, it would be interesting to study the oscillation behavior of Eq. (1.1) when does not hold.
We shall consider the two cases:
and
The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we present some lemmas which play important roles in the proofs of the main results. In Section 3, we intend to use the Riccati transformation technique, integral averaging technique and inequalities to obtain some sufficient conditions for oscillation of every solution of Eq. (1.1). In Section 4, we give an example in order to illustrate the main result.
2 Some preliminary lemmas
In order to prove our main results, we use the following formula:
where x is delta differentiable and eventually positive or eventually negative, which is a simple consequence of Keller’s chain rule (see [[2], Theorem 1.90]).
It is convenient to make the following notations:
where is sufficiently large with .
Next, we begin with the following lemmas which will be used in the proof of our main results.
Lemma 2.1 ([[2], Chapter 2])
If , i.e., is rd-continuous and such that for all , then the initial value problem has a unique and positive solution on , denoted by . This ‘exponential function’ satisfies the semigroup property .
Lemma 2.2 ([[13], Lemma 2.2])
Assume that is strictly increasing and is a time scale, . Let . If and exist for , then exists, and
Lemma 2.3 Assume that (1.5) holds. Furthermore, assume that x is an eventually positive solution of (1.1). Then there exists such that
Proof Let x be an eventually positive solution of (1.1). Then there exists such that and for all . Proceeding as in the proof of Lemma 3.5 in [27], we have , , , which yields that
that is,
In view of (2.4) and , it is easy to get that
The proof is complete. □
Lemma 2.4 ([[28], Theorem 41])
If X and Y are nonnegative real numbers and , then
where the equality holds if and only if .
Lemma 2.5 ([[2], Theorem 6.1])
Let and . Then
implies
3 Main results
Now, we are in a position to state and prove the main results which guarantee that every solution of Eq. (1.1) oscillates.
Theorem 3.1 Assume that (1.5) holds and . Furthermore, assume that there exists a positive function such that for sufficiently large ,
Then Eq. (1.1) is oscillatory on .
Proof Suppose to the contrary that Eq. (1.1) has a nonoscillatory solution x on . Without loss of generality, we may assume that there exists such that , for all . We shall consider only this case, since the case when x is eventually negative is similar. From (1.1), (2.3) and (C3), we have
Define the function ω by
Then . Using the product rule and the quotient rule, we get
where is shorthand for . Using Lemma 2.3 and (C2), it follows that
and
From (3.2), (3.3) and (3.4), we obtain
It follows from (2.5), (3.5) and (3.7) that
If , from Lemmas 2.2, 2.3 and (2.1), we have
From the above inequality and (3.5), we get
Hence, from (3.6), (3.8) and (3.9), we obtain
If , from Lemmas 2.2, 2.3 and (2.1), we have
Similarly to the proof of the previous case, we still get (3.10). Therefore, when , we obtain
where . Define X and Y by
and
Hence by (2.6), it follows that
In view of (3.11) and (3.12), we have
Integrating (3.13) from to t, we get
which leads to a contradiction with (3.1). This completes the proof. □
Remark 3.1 Note that in the special case when , then , , and , then (3.1) becomes the condition (4.1) in [27], so Theorem 4.1 in [27] is a special case of our results.
Remark 3.2 From Theorem 3.1, we can obtain different conditions for oscillation of all solutions of (1.1) with different choices of δ.
Taking and in Theorem 3.1 respectively, we have the following two results.
Corollary 3.1 Assume that (1.5) holds and . If for sufficiently large ,
then Eq. (1.1) is oscillatory on .
Corollary 3.2 Assume that (1.5) holds and . If for sufficiently large ,
then Eq. (1.1) is oscillatory on .
Theorem 3.2 Assume that (1.5) holds and . Furthermore, assume that there exist and a positive function such that for sufficiently large ,
Then Eq. (1.1) is oscillatory on .
Proof Suppose to the contrary that Eq. (1.1) has a nonoscillatory solution x on . Without loss of generality, we may assume that there exists such that , for all . We shall consider only this case, since the case when x is eventually negative is similar. We define the function ω by (3.3) again and proceeding as in the proof of Theorem 3.1, we have (3.13). Multiplying (3.13) by and integrating from to t, we get
Using the integration by parts formula, we arrive at
From the proof of Theorem 2.9 in [17], we obtain
where , . Combining (3.15) with (3.16) and (3.17), we have
that is,
which contradicts (3.14). This completes the proof. □
Theorem 3.3 Assume that (1.5) holds and . Furthermore, assume that there exist and a positive function such that for sufficiently large ,
where
Then Eq. (1.1) is oscillatory on .
Proof Suppose to the contrary that Eq. (1.1) has a nonoscillatory solution x on . Without loss of generality, we may assume that there exists such that , for all . We shall consider only this case, since the case when x is eventually negative is similar. We define the function ω by (3.3) as before and proceed as in the proof of Theorem 3.1 to obtain (3.11). Then from (3.11) we have
Multiplying the above inequality by and integrating from to t, we get
Combining (3.19) with (3.16) and (3.17), we obtain
Define X and Y by
and
Hence by (2.6), it follows that
From (3.20) and (3.21), we have
that is,
This is a contradiction with (3.18). This completes the proof. □
Theorem 3.4 Assume that (1.5) holds and . Furthermore, assume that there exist functions , where such that
and H has a nonpositive continuous Δ-partial derivation with respect to the second variable and satisfies
and for sufficiently large ,
where is a positive function. Then Eq. (1.1) is oscillatory on .
Proof Suppose to the contrary that Eq. (1.1) has a nonoscillatory solution x on . Without loss of generality, we may assume that there exists such that , for all . We shall consider only this case, since the case when x is eventually negative is similar. We define the function ω by (3.3) as before and proceed as in the proof of Theorem 3.1 to obtain (3.11). Multiplying (3.11) by and integrating from to t, we get
Integrating the left side by parts and from (3.22), we obtain
Therefore,
Define X and Y by
and
Hence by (2.6), it follows that
From (3.25) and (3.26), we get
that is,
which is a contradiction with (3.24). This completes the proof. □
Theorem 3.5 Assume that (1.6) holds and . Furthermore, assume that there exists a positive function such that for sufficiently large , (3.1) or (3.14), (3.18) and (3.24) hold, where , P, H and h are defined as in Theorems 3.3 and 3.4. If there exists a positive function , such that
then Eq. (1.1) is oscillatory on .
Proof Suppose to the contrary that Eq. (1.1) has a nonoscillatory solution x on . Without loss of generality, we may assume that there exists such that , for all . We shall consider only this case, since the case when x is eventually negative is similar. Proceeding as in the proof of Lemma 3.5 in [27], we have
By Lemma 2.1, we get is either eventually positive or eventually negative. Hence, there are two possible cases.
Case (I). , .
The proof when is eventually positive is similar to that of Theorems 3.1 or 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4, so we omit the details.
Case (II). , .
From (3.28) and Lemma 2.1, we have
that is,
Hence
Integrating (3.29) from t to ∞, we get
where . Using (3.29) and the above inequality in Eq. (1.1), we obtain
Define the function u by
Then . Using the product rule and from (3.30), we find that
Since , then from Lemma 2.5, it follows
Therefore, for all ,
Letting and using (3.27) in (3.32) yields . This is a contradiction with the fact that . This completes the proof. □
Remark 3.3 We note that (3.27) becomes (4.9) in [27] when , and so Theorem 3.5 in this paper includes Theorem 4.3 given in Zhang [27].
4 Example
In this section, we give an example to illustrate Theorem 3.1.
Example 4.1 Consider the second-order half-linear delay dynamic equation on time scales
where , .
Let
It is easy to see that the condition (C2) is satisfied, (C3) holds with , and (C1) is satisfied as
For any , we have
and we can find such that
Next, by Lemma 2 in [29], from (C1), we get
and
Letting in the above inequality, we obtain that (1.5) holds. Take for all . Then
if . Then (4.1) is oscillatory by Theorem 3.1 when .
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This research is supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (11071143), Natural Science Outstanding Youth Foundation of Shandong Province (JQ201119) and supported by Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (ZR2012AM009), also supported by Natural Science Foundation of Educational Department of Shandong Province (J11LA01).
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Han, Z., Sun, Y. & Xu, M. Oscillation criteria for p-Laplacian delay dynamic equations with damping on time scales. Adv Differ Equ 2013, 145 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1186/1687-1847-2013-145
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