Extremal solutions for nth order linear difference equations

DOI10.1016/0022-247X(92)90240-EMaRDI QIDQ1197437zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bennette R. Harris

Publication date 16 January 1993

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-247x(92)90240-e

zbMATH Keywords

classification of solutionsdisconjugate linear difference operatorextremal solutionslinear difference equationsnonoscillatory solutionsoscillatory solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Review text

The author analyzes the characteristics of extremal solutions for linear difference equations of the form \((*)\;Ly(t)+p(t)y(t)=0\) where \(L\) is an \(n\)-th order disconjugate linear difference operator and \(p(t)\) is nonzero and of constant sign on the interval \(I=[a,\infty)=\{a,a+1,\dots\}\). This work is based on and extends the result concerning the classification of solutions done by \textit{D. Hankerson} and \textit{A. Peterson} [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 136, 249-266 (1988; Zbl 0664.39001)]. The main result of this paper is the following: The set of nontrivial solutions of \((*)\) is the union of disjoint, non empty sets \(S_ k\), \(0\leq k\leq n\), \((-1)^{n-k}p(t)<0\) such that each set consists either of oscillatory solutions or of nonoscillatory solutions only.

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