Izobov's problem on Kneser solutions of singular nonlinear differential equations of the second and third order (Q2188048)

The differential equation \[ y^{(n)}(x)=p(x)|y(x)|^k \operatorname{sign} y(x), \ \ x\geq0, \ \ n\in N, \ \ n\geq2,\ \ k\in(0,1).\tag{1} \] where \(0<k<1\), \(p\) is a piecewise continuous function such that \((-1)^{(n)}p(x)\geq0\), is considered in the article. The article consists of 3 sections and the list of references. The first section is devoted to the general introduction into the problem. For the second and the third order equations of the type (1), the author investigates Kneser solutions vanishing at infinity. For the second order equations of the type (1) the author indicates the well-known conditions for the existence of such solutions that have been obtained by G. G. Kvinikadze and N. A. Izobov. The author obtains analogs of the results of N. A. Izobov for equations of the second and third order. The main results of the paper are given in the theorems 3 and 4. In Theorem 3 using the condition of continuity of the function \(\varphi\), the author gets the infinitely differentiable function \(p\) in the analogue of Isobov's theorem. Also, the Isobov problem is partially solved for \(n=3\). The Theorem 3 is a corollary of the Theorem 4. The proof of Theorem 4 consists of constructing of solutions on disjoint intervals by different ways, depending on the number of the interval. On my opinion, the results presented in the article are very important for the further study of Isobov's problem for equation (1).