Focal points of half-linear second order differential equations

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Authors Robert Mařík

Publication date 13 September 2001

Published in Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

\(p\)-degree functionalfocal pointgeneralized Riccati equationhalf-linear equationscalar \(p\)-Laplacian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological structure of integral curves, singular points, limit cycles of ordinary differential equations (34C05) Oscillation theory, zeros, disconjugacy and comparison theory for ordinary differential equations (34C10)

Review text

Here, the author studies the distribution of focal points of solutions to the half-linear second-order differential equation \[ (r(t)\Phi(x'))'+c(t)\Phi(x)=0,\quad \Phi(x)=|x|^{p-2}x,\;p>1. \tag{*} \] Recall that a point \(b\) is said to be the focal point to the point \(a<b\) if there exists a nontrivial solution \(x\) to (*) such that \(x'(a)=0=x(b)\). Based on the Riccati technique and the variational principle, various comparison theorems for focal points of two equations of the form (*) are obtained. The situation when on the right-hand-side of (*) a function \(f\) appears instead of \(0\) (nonhomogeneous half-linear equations) is also discussed. The obtained results extend and complete the results given in the papers by \textit{J. Jaroš} and \textit{T. Kusano} [Acta Math. Univ. Comen., New Ser. 68, No. 1, 137-151 (1999; Zbl 0926.34023)] and \textit{R. Navarro} and \textit{J. Sarabia} [Appl. Math. Comput. 79, No. 2-3, 203-206 (1996; Zbl 0867.34019)].

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