Existence and asymptotic behavior of positive solutions of fourth order quasilinear differential equations (Q390077)

The authors study the existence and the precise asymptotic behavior of solutions \(x(t)\) defined on \([a,\infty )\) of the sub-half-linear (i.e., \( \alpha >\beta \)) equation \[ (|x''|^{\alpha -1} x'')''+q(t)|x|^{\beta -1} = 0 \] of Emden-Fowler type (i.e., \(q:[a,\infty )\rightarrow (0,\infty )\)). In the papers by \textit{F. Wu} [Funkc. Ekvacioj, Ser. Int. 45, No. 1, 71--88 (2002; Zbl 1157.34319)] and by \textit{M. Naito} and \textit{F. Wu} [Acta Math. Hung. 102, No. 3, 177--202 (2004; Zbl 1048.34077)], a classification of (positive) \(x(t)\) was presented and the existence and the precise asymptotic behavior of solutions belonging to some of the classes was proved for both cases \(\alpha >\beta \), \(\alpha <\beta \). Here, by assuming that \(q\) is regularly varying in the sense of Karamata, it is proved that the solutions of all remaining classes also exist and their precise behavior is determined for the sub-linear case \(\alpha >\beta \).