Existence of nonoscillatory solutions of first and second order neutral differential equations with distributed deviating arguments (Q609795): Difference between revisions

The authors study first and second order neutral functional differential equations with distributed deviating arguments of the form \[ \frac{d^k}{dt^k}[x(t)+P(t)x(t-\tau)]+\int_a^bq_1(t,\xi)x(t-\xi)d\xi-\int_c^dq_2(t,\mu)x(t-\mu)d\mu,\tag{1} \] where \(k=1,2\), \(P\in C[[t_0,\infty),\mathbb{R}]\), \(q_1\in C[[t_0,\infty)\times[a,b],\mathbb{R}^+]\), \(q_2\in C[[t_0,\infty)\times[c,d],\mathbb{R}^+]\),\ \(0<a<b\) and \(0<c<d\). By using Banach's contraction principle, the authors present sufficient conditions for the existence of a nonoscillatory solution of (1).