MSC 2010: 34A08, 34A37, 49N70Here we investigate a problem of approaching terminal (target) set by a system of impulse differential equations of fractional order in the sense of Caputo. The system is under control of two players pursuing opposite goals. The first player tries to bring the trajectory of the system to the terminal set in the shortest time, whereas the second player tries to maximally put off the instant when the trajectory hits the set, or even avoid this meeting at all. We derive...

Conjugacy and disconjugacy criteria are established for the equation $$u^{\text{'}\text{'}}+p\left(t\right)u=0,$$ where $p:]-\infty ,+\infty [\to ]-\infty ,+\infty [$ is a locally summable function.

Oscillation properties of the self-adjoint, two term, differential equation $${(-1)}^n{\left(p\left(x\right)y^{\left(n\right)}\right)}^{\left(n\right)}+q\left(x\right)y=0(*)$$ are investigated. Using the variational method and the concept of the principal system of solutions it is proved that (*) is conjugate on $R=(-\infty ,\infty )$ if there exist an integer $m\in \{0,1,\cdots ,n-1\}$ and $c_0,\cdots ,c_m\in R$ such that $${\int }_{\infty }^0{x}^{2(n-m-1)}{p}^{-1}\left(x\right)dx=\infty ={\int }_0^{\infty }{x}^{2(n-m-1)}{p}^{-1}\left(x\right)dx$$ and $$\underset{x_1\downarrow -\infty ,x_2\uparrow \infty }{lim\; sup}{\int }_{x_1}^{x_2}q\left(x\right){(c_0+c_{1}x+\cdots +c_m{x}^m)}^{2}dx\le 0,q\left(x\right)\neg \equiv 0.$$ Some extensions of this criterion are suggested.

Sufficient conditions on the function $c\left(t\right)$ ensuring that the half-linear second order differential equation $$\left(\right|u^{\text{'}}{|}^{p-2}{u}^{\text{'}}{)}^{\text{'}}+c\left(t\right){\left|u\left(t\right)\right|}^{p-2}u\left(t\right)=0,p>1$$ possesses a nontrivial solution having at least two zeros in a given interval are obtained. These conditions extend some recently proved conjugacy criteria for linear equations which correspond to the case $p=2$.

This paper is devoted to the investigation of quasilinear hyperbolic equations of first order with convex and nonconvex hysteresis operator. It is shown that in the nonconvex case the equation, whose nonlinearity is caused by the hysteresis term, has properties analogous to the quasilinear hyperbolic equation of first order. Hysteresis is represented by a functional describing adsorption and desorption on the particles of the substance. An existence result is achieved by using an approximation of...