The persistence of nonoscillatory solutions of delay differential equations under impulsive perturbations (Q1323599)

The following problem is considered: \(x'(t) + p(t) x(t - \tau) = 0\), \(t \neq t_ k\), \(x(t^ +_ k) - x(t_ k) = b_ k x(t_ k)\), \(k \in N\). According to the authors a nonoscillatory solution is an either eventually positive or eventually negative one. The second one of the above equations is the impulsive perturbation to the first one. The known result concerning such a system of equations is as follows: If \(p(t) = p > 0\), \(p \tau e \leq 1 - c\) for some positive \(c\), \(b_ k > 0\) and \(\sum b_ k < \infty\), then the system has a nonoscillatory solution. This paper extends the above result. The following theorems are proved: Theorem 1. If \(b_ k > 0\) and the delay equations without impulsive perturbations has a nonoscillatory solution, then our problem has a nonoscillatory solution. Theorem 2. If \(b_ k > 0\), \(p(t) = p\), if there exists a positive constant \(T\) such that \(\tau < T\) and \(t_{k + 1} - t_ k \geq T\) and if \(\lim_{k \to \infty} b_ k = 0\), then our problem has a nonoscillatory solution iff \(p \tau e \leq 1\).