Abstract

We study the following second-order super-half-linear impulsive differential equations with delay , , , , where , , is a nonnegative constant, denotes the impulsive moments sequence with , , and . By some classical inequalities, Riccati transformation, and two classes of functions, we give several interval oscillation criteria which generalize and improve some known results. Moreover, we also give two examples to illustrate the effectiveness and nonemptiness of our results.

1. Introduction

We consider the following second-order super-half-linear impulsive differential equations with delay where , , is a nonnegative constant, denotes the impulsive moments sequence with , , and .

Let be an interval, we define For given and , we say is a solution of (1.1) with initial value if satisfies (1.1) for and for .

A solution of (1.1) is said to be nonoscillatory if it is eventually positive or eventually negative. Otherwise, this solution is said to be oscillatory.

Impulsive differential equation is an adequate mathematical apparatus for the simulation of processes and phenomena observed in control theory, physics, chemistry, population dynamics, biotechnologies, industrial robotics, economics, and so forth. Because it has more richer theory than its corresponding nonimpulsive differential equation, much research has been done on the qualitative behavior of certain impulsive differential equations (see [1, 2]).

In the last decades, there has been an increasing interest in obtaining sufficient conditions for oscillation and/or nonoscillation of different classes impulsive differential equations with delay (constant or variable), see, for example, [19] and the references cited therein.

In recent years, interval oscillation of impulsive differential equations was also arousing the interest of many researchers, see [1015].

However, for the impulsive equations almost all of interval oscillation results in the existing literature were established only for the case of “without delay,” in other words, for the case of “with delay” the study on the interval oscillation is very scarce. To the best of our knowledge, Huang and Feng [16] gave the first research in this direction recently. They considered the second-order delay differential equations with impulses and established some interval oscillation criteria which developed some known results for the equation without delay or impulses [13, 17, 18].

Motivated mainly by [16], in this paper, we study the interval oscillation of the delay impulsive equation (1.1). By using classical inequalities, Riccati transformation, and two classes of functions (introduced first by Philos [19]), we establish some interval oscillation criteria which generalize and improve some known results of [13, 1618]. Moreover, we also give two examples to illustrate the effectiveness and nonemptiness of our results.

2. Main Results

Throughout the paper, we always assume that the following conditions hold: ) and is nondecreasing, ; () is a quotient of odd positive integers , are real constants satisfying , ; (), and there exist some positive constants and such that for all with .

We introduce the following notations at intervals and

For two constants with , and a function , we define an operator by where if .

In the discussion of the impulse moments of and , we need to consider the following cases for ,(S1) and ; (S2) and ; (S3) and ; (S4) and , and the cases for ; (1); (2) ; (3) .

Combining (S*) with (*), we can get 12 cases. In order to save space, throughout the paper, we study (1.1) under the case of combination of (S1) with (1) only. The discussions for other cases are similar and omitted.

The following preparatory lemmas will be useful to prove our theorems. The first is derived from [20] and the second from [21].

Lemma 2.1. Let and be positive real numbers with . Then for all and .

Lemma 2.2. Suppose and are nonnegative, then where equality holds if and if .

Let , , and . Put It follows from Lemma 2.2 that

Lemma 2.3. Assume that for any , there exists , , such that and If is a nonoscillatory solution of (1.1), then there exist the following estimations of : where , .

Proof. Without loss of generality, we assume that and for . In this case the selected interval of is . From (1.1) and (2.7), we obtain Hence is nonincreasing on the interval .
Case (a) (if , then ). Thus there is no impulsive moment in . For any , we have Since , the function is an increasing function and is non-increasing on , we have From (2.11) and the conditions and is nondecreasing, we have Thus Integrating both sides of above inequality from to , we obtain
Case (b) (if , then ). There is an impulsive moment in . For any , we have Using the impulsive condition of (1.1) and the monotone properties of , and , we get Since , we have In addition, Similar to the analysis of (2.11)–(2.14), we have From (2.17) and (2.19) and note that the monotone properties of and , we get In view of (), we have On the other hand, using similar analysis of (2.11)–(2.19), we get Integrating (2.22) from to , where , we have From (2.21) and (2.23), we obtain
Case (c) (). Since , then . So, there is no impulsive moment in . Similar to (2.14) of Case (a), we have
Case (d) (). Since , then . Hence, there is an impulsive moment in . Making a similar analysis of Case (b), we obtain
When , we can choose interval to study (1.1). The proof is similar and will be omitted. Therefore we complete the proof.

Theorem 2.4. Assume that for any , there exists , , such that and (2.7) holds. If there exists () such that, for , and for , where , then (1.1) is oscillatory.

Proof. Assume, to the contrary, that is a nonoscillatory solution of (1.1). Without loss of generality, we assume that and for . In this case the interval of selected for the following discussion is .
We define
Differentiating and in view of (1.1) we obtain, for , Putting , , , , and , by Lemma 2.1, we see that where .
First, we consider the case .
In this case, we assume impulsive moments in are . Choosing a , multiplying both sides of (2.31) by and then integrating it from to , we obtain where . Using the integration by parts on the left side of above inequality and noting the condition , we obtain Letting , , and using (2.6), for the integrand function in above inequality we have that Meanwhile, for , , we have Hence Therefore, we get On the other hand, for , , we have In view of , and note that the monotone properties of , , and , we obtain This is Let , it follows Similar analysis on , we can get Then from (2.41), (2.42), and , we have where and . From (2.37) and (2.43) and applying Lemma 2.3, we obtain This contradicts (2.27).
Next we consider the case . By the condition (1) we know there is no impulsive moment in . Multiplying both sides of (2.31) by and integrating it from to , we obtain Using the integration by parts on the left-hand side and noting the condition , we obtain It follows that Letting , , and and applying the inequality (2.6), we get Using same way as Case (a) we get From (2.48) and (2.49) we obtain This contradicts our assumption (2.28).
When , we can choose interval to study (1.1). The proof is similar and will be omitted. Therefore we complete the proof.

Remark 2.5. When , , and the delay term , (1.1) reduces to that studied by Liu and Xu [13]. Therefore our Theorem 2.4 generalizes Theorem 2.1 of [13].

Remark 2.6. When , and , (1.1) reduces to the (1.3) studied by Huang and Feng [16]. Therefore our Theorem 2.4 extends Theorem 2.1 of [16].

Remark 2.7. When , for all ., the impulses in (1.1) disappear, Theorem 2.4 reduces to the main results of [17, 18].

In the following we will establish a Kemenev type interval oscillation criteria for (1.1) by the ideas of Philos [19] and Kong [22].

Let , , then a pair function is said to belong to a function set , defined by , if there exists satisfying the following conditions:(), , for ; () , .

We assume there exist () which satisfy for any . Noticing whether or not there are impulsive moments of in and , we should consider the following four cases, namely, (S1); (S2) ; (S3); (S4) .

Moreover, in the discussion of the impulse moments of , it is necessary to consider the following two cases: (1);    (2) .

In the following theorem, we only consider the case of combination of (S1) with (1). For the other cases, similar conclusions can be given and their proofs will be omitted here.

For convenience in the expressing blow, we define where ,  () and .

Theorem 2.8. Assume that for any , there exists , , such that and if there exists a pair of such that then (1.1) is oscillatory.

Proof. Assume, to the contrary, that is a nonoscillatory solution of (1.1). Without loss of generality, we assume that and for . In this case the interval of selected for the following discussion is . Using the same proof as in Theorem 2.4, we can get (2.31). Multiplying both sides of (2.31) by and integrating it from to , we have where . Noticing impulsive moments are in and using the integration by parts on the left-hand side of above inequality, we obtain Substituting (2.54) into (2.53), we have Letting , , and using (2.6) to the right side of above inequality, we have Because there are different integration intervals in (2.56), we need to divide the integration interval into several subintervals for estimating the function . Using Lemma 2.2, (2.6), we get estimation for the left-hand side of above inequality as follows, From (2.56) and (2.57), we have Multiplying both sides of (2.31) by and using similar analysis to the above, we can obtain Dividing (2.58) and (2.59) by and , respectively, and adding them, we get
On the other hand, similar to (2.43), we have From (2.60) and (2.61), we can obtain a contradiction to the condition (2.52).
When , we can choose interval to study (1.1). The proof is similar and will be omitted. Therefore we complete the proof.

Remark 2.9. Let , and , the conditions (), () can be changed into (), , for ; (), . We know that () and () are the main assumptions used in [13, 16] to obtain Kemenev type oscillation criteria. Therefore, Theorem 2.8 is a generalization of Theorem 2.3 in [13] and Theorem 2.5 in [16].

3. Examples

In this section, we give two examples to illustrate the effectiveness and nonemptiness of our results.

Example 3.1. Consider the following equation where , ,  ., , , , and are positive constants.
For any , we can choose large such that There are impulsive moments in and in . From and for all , we know that condition is satisfied. Moreover, we also see the conditions (S1) and (2.7) are satisfied.
Let . It is easy to get that . In view of as , by a simple calculation, the left side of (2.27) is the following On the other hand, we have Thus condition (2.27) is satisfied for if Similarly, for we can get the following condition which ensures (2.27). Hence, by Theorem 2.4, if (3.5) and (3.6) hold, (3.1) is oscillatory. It is easy to see that (3.5) and (3.6) may be satisfied when or is large enough. Particularly, let , for and , condition (3.5) and (3.6) become a simple form

Example 3.2. Consider the following equation where : , , , (), , , , , (>0) is a constant. Clearly, . In addition, let For any , we choose large enough such that and let , , and . Then , , and on and satisfy (2.7). Let , then . By simple calculation, we get Then the left side of the inequality (2.52) is
Because , and , it is easy to get that the right side of the inequality (2.52) for is Thus (2.52) is satisfied for if When , with the similar argument above we get that the left side of inequality (2.52) is and the right side of the inequality (2.52) is Therefore (2.52) is satisfied for if Hence, by Theorem 2.8, (3.8) is oscillatory if (3.13) and (3.16) hold. Particularly, let , for , condition (3.13) and (3.16) become a simple form

Acknowledgments

The authors thank the anonymous reviewers for their detailed and insightful comments and suggestions for improvement of paper. This work was supported by the NNSF of China (11161018), and the NSF of Guangdong Province (10452408801004217).