Unbounded nonoscillatory solutions of nonlinear ordinary differential equations of arbitrary order (Q1108439)

The author consider the nth order equations (*) \(y^{(n)}+\sigma f(t,y,y',...,y^{(n-1)})=0,\) \(\sigma =\pm 1\), with restrictive conditions on f so that (*) behaves like the sublinear equations \(y^{(n)}+\sigma p(t)| y|^{\gamma} sgn y=0,\) \(0<\gamma <1\). For each integer k with \(1\leq k\leq n-1\) and \((-1)^{n-k-1}\sigma =1\), conditions are given for equation (*) to have nonoscillatory solutions y(t) of the form \(\lim_{t\to \infty}y(t)/t^ k=0\) and \(\lim_{t\to \infty}y(t)/t^{k-1}=\pm \infty.\)