Positive solutions of fourth order Emden-Fowler type differential equations in the framework of regular variation (Q428063)

The authors consider the fourth-order Emden-Fowler type equation \[ x^{(4)}+q(t)|x|^{\gamma }\operatorname{sgn}x = 0 , \quad 0<\gamma <1. \] By assuming that \(q\) is regularly varying and of index \(\sigma \in {\mathbb R}\) (denoted by \(q \in RV(\sigma )\)) (cf. [\textit{N. H. Bingham, C. M. Goldie} and \textit{J. L. Teugels}, Regular Variation. Cambridge etc.: Cambridge University Press (1987; Zbl 0617.26001)], the existence of solutions \(x\in RV(\rho )\) with \(\rho = 0,1,2,3\) is proved and the precise asymptotic behavior for \(t\rightarrow \infty \) of \(x(t)\) is determined. In addition, the existence of nearly regularly varying solutions of index \(\rho \in (0,1)\cup (2,3)\) is proved. Remark of the reviewer. Some of these results overlap with the ones of \textit{V. M. Evtukhov} and \textit{A. M. Samoilenko} [Differ. Equ. 47, No. 5, 627--649 (2011); translation from Differ. Uravn. 47, No. 5, 627--649 (2011; Zbl 1242.34092)] related to an \(n\)-th order equation of the considered type.