Asymptotic representations of solutions of essentially nonlinear cyclic systems of ordinary differential equations (Q1760434)

The authors consider the system \[ y^\prime_{i} = \alpha _{i}p_{i}(t)\varphi _{i+1}(y_{i+1}) , \qquad i=1,2,\dotsc, n, \] and all functions with subscript \(n+1\) are assumed to coincide with those with subscript 1. Here, \(\alpha _{i}\in \{ -1,1\} \) \(p_{i}: [a,\omega )\rightarrow (0,\infty )\) are continuous functions. \(-\infty <a<\omega \leq +\infty \), \(Y^{o}_{i}\) is equal to either zero or \(\pm \infty \), and \(\varphi _{i}(y)\) are normalized regularly varying functions of order \(\sigma _{i}\) at \(Y^{o}_{i}\) [\textit{E. Seneta}, Lect. Notes Math. 508 (1976; Zbl 0324.26002)]. By applying a more general result of \textit{V. M. Evtukhov} and \textit{A. M. Samoilenko} [Ukr. Mat. Zh. 62, No. 1, 52--80 (2010); translation in Ukr. Math. J. 62, No. 1, 56--86 (2010; Zbl 1224.35033)], the existence of solutions \(y_{i}(t)\) belonging to a special class of functions is proved. Also, the asymptotic representation as \(t\rightarrow \omega \) is obtained first for \(\frac{y_{i}(t)}{\varphi _{i+1}(y_{i+1}(t))}\) and under some additional condition on \(\varphi _{i}\), also for \(y_{i}(t)\). Reviewer's remark: The title of the above mentioned book by E. Seneta is in the References erroneously cited as ``Properly varying function'' and this false terminology is then propagated throughout the paper.