On the asymptotic behavior of solutions to second-order neutral differential equations (Q2707276)

The author deals with the asymptotic behaviour of solutions to neutral differential equations. He considers the second-order differential equation NEWLINE\[NEWLINE (x(t)-px(t-\tau))''+q(t)x(\sigma(t))=0 NEWLINE\]NEWLINE under the assumptions NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE(i) \(0<p<1\), \(\tau>0\); NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE(ii) \(q,\sigma\in C(\mathbb{R}_{+},\mathbb{R}_{+})\), where \(\mathbb{R}_{+}=(0,\infty)\), \(\sigma(t)>t\). NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEUnder these and some additional assumptions the author proves three theorems which state that the nonoscillatory solutions to the above equation tend to zero as \(t\) tends to infinity. Another theorem gives a sufficient condition for the boundedness of the nonoscillatory solutions, and the last one gives a sufficient condition in order that \(x(t)<px(t-\tau)\) holds for every nonoscillatory solution \(x\).