Stability, boundedness and existence of periodic solutions to certain third order nonlinear differential equations (Q2817415)

In this paper, the authors consider a nonlinear differential equation of third order of the form NEWLINE\[NEWLINE {x}''' + \lambda \varphi (t)g_1 (x,{x}',{x}'',\sigma ) = p(t,x,{x}',{x}'')\tag{1}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE with NEWLINE\[NEWLINE g_1 (x,{x}',{x}'',0) = f(x,{x}',{x}'') + g(x,{x}') + h(x), NEWLINE\]NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE\noindent where \(\lambda \) is a positive constant, \(x \in \mathbb R\), \(\mathbb R = ( - \infty ,\infty )\), \(t \in \mathbb R _ +\), \(\mathbb R _ + = [0,\infty )\), \(\varphi\) \(f\), \(g\), \(h\) and \(p\) are continuous functions for the arguments displayed explicitly in equation (1), and when it is needed they are differentiable for any respective argument. In addition, it is assumed that \(\varphi \) and \(p\) are period functions with period \(\omega\). The authors give sufficient conditions guaranteeing the uniform asymptotical stability, uniform ultimate boundedness of solutions of equation (1) and the existence of at least one periodic solution of equation (1) with period \(\omega\). The obtained result improves some recent works in the literature and the technique of the proofs is based on appropriate Lyapunov functionals. An example is given for illustrations.