OSCILLATION CRITERIA FOR CERTAIN FOURTH ORDER NONLINEAR DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS

TitleOSCILLATION CRITERIA FOR CERTAIN FOURTH ORDER NONLINEAR DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2010
AuthorsGRACE, SAIDR, AGARWAL, RAVIP, PINELAS, SANDRA
Secondary TitleCommunications in Applied Analysis
Volume14
Issue3
Start Page337
Pagination342
Date Published08/2010
Type of Workscientific: mathematics
ISSN1083–2564
Abstract
We shall establish some new criteria for the oscillation of the fourth order nonlinear difference equation
via comparison with some difference equations of less order whose oscillatory characters are known.
URLhttp://www.acadsol.eu/en/articles/14/3/5.pdf
Short TitleOSCILLATION CRITERIA
Refereed DesignationRefereed
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