Sufficient conditions are obtained so that every solution of ${[y\left(t\right)-p\left(t\right)y(t-\tau )]}^{\left(n\right)}+Q\left(t\right)G\left(y(t-\sigma )\right)=f\left(t\right)$ where n ≥ 2, p,f ∈ C([0,∞),ℝ), Q ∈ C([0,∞),[0,∞)), G ∈ C(ℝ,ℝ), τ > 0 and σ ≥ 0, oscillates or tends to zero as $t\to \infty$. Various ranges of p(t) are considered. In order to accommodate sublinear cases, it is assumed that ${\int }_0^{\infty }Q\left(t\right)dt=\infty$. Through examples it is shown that if the condition on Q is weakened, then there are sublinear equations whose solutions tend to ±∞ as t → ∞.

For the equation $$y^{\left(n\right)}+{\left|y\right|}^k\mathrm{sgn}y=0,k>1,n=3,4,$$ existence of oscillatory solutions $$y={(x^{*}-x)}^{-\alpha }h(log(x^{*}-x)),\alpha =\frac{n}{k-1},x<x^{*},$$ is proved, where $x^{*}$ is an arbitrary point and $h$ is a periodic non-constant function on $ℝ$. The result on existence of such solutions with a positive periodic non-constant function $h$ on $ℝ$ is formulated for the equation $$y^{\left(n\right)}={\left|y\right|}^k\mathrm{sgn}y,k>1,n=12,13,14.$$

Let ϕ: [0,1] → [0,1] be a nondecreasing continuous function such that ϕ(x) > x for all x ∈ (0,1). Let the operator $V_{\varphi }:f\left(x\right)\mapsto {\int }_0^{\varphi \left(x\right)}f\left(t\right)dt$ be defined on L₂[0,1]. We prove that $V_{\varphi }$ has a finite number of nonzero eigenvalues if and only if ϕ(0) > 0 and ϕ(1-ε) = 1 for some 0 < ε < 1. Also, we show that the spectral trace of the operator $V_{\varphi }$ always equals 1.

Criteria for oscillatory behavior of solutions of fourth order half-linear differential equations of the form $$\left(\right|y^{\text{'}\text{'}}{|}^{\alpha }\mathrm{sgn}{y}^{\text{'}\text{'}}{)}^{\text{'}\text{'}}+q\left(t\right){\left|y\right|}^{\alpha }\mathrm{sgn}y=0,t\ge a>0,A$$ where $\alpha >0$ is a constant and $q\left(t\right)$ is positive continuous function on $[a,\infty )$, are given in terms of an increasing continuously differentiable function $\omega \left(t\right)$ from $[a,\infty )$ to $(0,\infty )$ which satisfies ${\int }_a^{\infty }1/\left(t\omega \left(t\right)\right)dt<\infty$.

Let $u$ be a weight on $(0,\infty )$. Assume that $u$ is continuous on $(0,\infty )$. Let the operator $S_u$ be given at measurable non-negative function $\varphi$ on $(0,\infty )$ by $$S_u\varphi \left(t\right)=\underset{0<\tau \le t}{sup}u\left(\tau \right)\varphi \left(\tau \right).$$ We characterize weights $v,w$ on $(0,\infty )$ for which there exists a positive constant $C$ such that the inequality $${\left({\int }_0^{\infty }{\left[S_u\varphi \left(t\right)\right]}^{q}w\left(t\right)dt\right)}^{\frac{1}{q}}\lesssim {\left({\int }_0^{\infty }{\left[\varphi \left(t\right)\right]}^{p}v\left(t\right)dt\right)}^{\frac{1}{p}}$$ holds for every $0<p,q<\infty$. Such inequalities have been used in the study of optimal Sobolev embeddings and boundedness of certain operators on classical Lorenz spaces.

Let $I=[a,b]\subset ℝ$, let , let $u$ and $v$ be positive functions with $u\in L_{p^{\prime }}(I)$ e $v\in L_q(I)$ and let $T:L_p(I)\to L_q(I)$be the Hardy-type operator given by $$\left(Tf\right)\left(x\right)=v\left(x\right){\int }_a^{x}f\left(t\right)u\left(t\right)dt,x\in I.$$ We show that the asymptotic behavior of the eigenvalues$\lambda$of the non-linear integral system $$g\left(x\right)=\left(TF\right)\left(x\right){\left(f\left(x\right)\right)}_{\left(p\right)}=\lambda \left(T^{*}{g}_{\left(p\right)}\right))\left(x\right)$$ (where, for example,$t_{(p)}={|t|}^{p-1}\mathrm{sgn}(t)$is given by $$\begin{array}{cc}& \underset{n\to \infty }{lim}n{\widehat{\lambda }}_n\left(T\right)=c_{p,q}{\left({\int }_I{\left(uv\right)}^r{)}^{1/r}dt\right)}^{1/r},\text{for}1<p<q<\infty \hfill \\ & \underset{n\to \infty }{lim}n{\check{\lambda }}_n\left(T\right)=c_{p,q}{\left({\int }_I{\left(uv\right)}^{r}dt\right)}^{1/r}\text{for}1<q<p<\infty \hfill \end{array}$$ Here$r=\frac{1}{p^{\prime }}+\frac{1}{p}$, $c_{p,q}$ is an explicit constant depending only on $p$ and $q$, $\widehat{\lambda }(T)=\max (s{p}_n(T,p,q))$, ${\check{\lambda }}_n(T)=\min (s{p}_n(T,p,q))$ where $s{p}_n(T,p,q)$ stands for the set of all eigenvalues $\lambda$ corresponding to eigenfunctions $g$ with $n$ zeros.

The second order linear differential equation $${\left(p\left(x\right)y^{\text{'}}\right)}^{\text{'}}+q\left(x\right)y=0,x\in (0,x_0]$$ is considered, where $p$, $q\in C^1(0,x_0]$, $p\left(x\right)>0$, $q\left(x\right)>0$ for $x\in (0,x_0]$. Sufficient conditions are established for every nontrivial solutions to be nonrectifiable oscillatory near $x=0$ without the Hartman–Wintner condition.

The neutral differential equation (1.1) $$\frac{{\mathrm{d}}^n}{\mathrm{d}{t}^n}[x\left(t\right)+x(t-\tau )]+\sigma F(t,x\left(g\left(t\right)\right))=0,$$ is considered under the following conditions: $n\ge 2$, $\tau >0$, $\sigma =\pm 1$, $F(t,u)$ is nonnegative on $[t_0,\infty )\times (0,\infty )$ and is nondecreasing in $u\in (0,\infty )$, and $limg\left(t\right)=\infty$ as $t\to \infty$. It is shown that equation (1.1) has a solution $x\left(t\right)$ such that (1.2) $$\underset{t\to \infty }{lim}\frac{x\left(t\right)}{t^k}\text{exists}\text{and}\text{is}\text{a}\text{positive}\text{finite}\text{value}\text{if}\text{and}\text{only}\text{if}{\int }_{t_0}^{\infty }{t}^{n-k-1}F(t,c{\left[g\left(t\right)\right]}^k)\mathrm{d}t<\infty \text{for}\text{some}c>0.$$ Here, $k$ is an integer with $0\le k\le n-1$. To prove the existence of a solution $x\left(t\right)$ satisfying (1.2), the Schauder-Tychonoff fixed point theorem is used.

We consider the asymptotic behavior of some classes of sequences defined by a recurrent formula. The main result is the following: Let f: (0,∞)² → (0,∞) be a continuous function such that (a) 0 < f(x,y) < px + (1-p)y for some p ∈ (0,1) and for all x,y ∈ (0,α), where α > 0; (b) $f(x,y)=px+(1-p)y-{\sum }_{s=m}^{\infty }s(x,y)$ uniformly in a neighborhood of the origin, where m > 1, ${}_s(x,y)={\sum }_{i=0}^s{a}_{i,s}{x}^{s-i}{y}^i$; (c) $ₘ(1,1)={\sum }_{i=0}^m{a}_{i,m}>0$. Let x₀,x₁ ∈ (0,α) and $x_{n+1}=f(xₙ,x_{n-1})$, n ∈ ℕ. Then the sequence (xₙ) satisfies the following asymptotic formula: $xₙ\sim {((2-p)/\left((m-1){\sum }_{i=0}^m{a}_{i,m}\right))}^{1/(m-1)}1/\sqrt[m-1]{n}$.