Oscillation criteria for certain second order difference equations

DOI10.4171/ZAA/593MaRDI QIDQ686842zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors E. Thandapani

Publication date 13 October 1993

Published in Zeitschrift für Analysis und ihre Anwendungen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4171/ZAA/593

zbMATH Keywords

oscillatory solution second order difference equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Additive difference equations (39A10) Discrete version of topics in analysis (39A12)

Review text

The author considers second order difference equations of the form \[ \Delta^ 2y_{n-1}+\sum^ m_{i=1}q_{i,n}f_ i(y_ n)g_ i(\Delta y_{n-1})=0,\;n\in \mathbb{N}, \tag{*} \] and gives (in four theorems) sufficient conditions for all solutions of the equation \((*)\) to be oscillatory. In the reviewer's opinion some additional assumptions should be added, generally for the functions \(g_ i\), because it is easy to find equations of the type \((*)\) such that all assumptions are satisfied, nevertheless the equation possesses the nonoscillatory solution \(y_ n \equiv 1\) (on \(\mathbb{N})\), in fact a family of constant solutions. This refers to Lemma 2 and all theorems. Let us take (for Lemma 2) \(m=1\), \(q_{1,n} =n^ 2\), \(g(u)=u^ 2\), \(f(u)=u\). The sequence \(y_ n=1\), \(n \in \mathbb{N}\) is a positive solution of \((*)\) but the thesis \(y_{n+1}>y_ n\) and \(\Delta y_ n>0\) falls down (see also applications of this lemma in the proofs of the theorems). Similar results for the discrete Emden- Fowler equation were obtained by \textit{J. W. Hooker} and \textit{W. T. Patula} [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 91, 9-29 (1983; Zbl 0508.39005)].

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