When mathematical models describing various processes are analysed, the fact of existence of a positive solution is often among the basic features. In this paper, a general delayed discrete equation $$\Delta u(k+n)=f(k,u(k),u(k+1),\cdots ,u(k+n\left)\right)$$ is considered. Sufficient conditions concerning $f$ are formulated in order to guarantee the existence of a positive solution for $k\to \infty$. An upper estimate for it is given as well. The appearance of the positive solution takes its origin in the nature of the equation considered since the results hold only...

We consider Schrödinger operators with dynamically defined potentials arising from continuous sampling along orbits of strictly ergodic transformations. The Gap Labeling Theorem states that the possible gaps in the spectrum can be canonically labelled by an at most countable set defined purely in terms of the dynamics. Which labels actually appear depends on the choice of the sampling function; the missing labels are said to correspond to collapsed gaps. Here we show that for any collapsed gap,...

Let $ℬ=f:ℝ\to ℝ:fisbounded$, and $ℳ=f:ℝ\to ℝ:fisLebesguemeasurable$. We show that there is a linear operator $\Phi :ℬ\to ℳ$ such that Φ(f)=f a.e. for every $f\in ℬ\cap ℳ$, and Φ commutes with all translations. On the other hand, if $\Phi :ℬ\to ℳ$ is a linear operator such that Φ(f)=f for every $f\in ℬ\cap ℳ$, then the group $G_{\Phi }$ = a ∈ ℝ:Φ commutes with the translation by a is of measure zero and, assuming Martin’s axiom, is of cardinality less than continuum. Let Φ be a linear operator from ${ℂ}^{ℝ}$ into the space of complex-valued measurable functions. We show that if Φ(f) is non-zero for every $f\left(x\right)=e^{cx}$, then $G_{\Phi }$ must...

We present a version of Opial's inequality for time scales and point out some of its applications to so-called dynamic equations. Such dynamic equations contain both differential equations and difference equations as special cases. Various extensions of our inequality are offered as well.

We prove some new Opial type inequalities on time scales and employ them to prove several results related to the spacing between consecutive zeros of a solution or between a zero of a solution and a zero of its derivative for second order dynamic equations on time scales. We also apply these inequalities to obtain a lower bound for the smallest eigenvalue of a Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problem on time scales. The results contain as special cases some results obtained for second order differential...

We consider the discrete survival red blood cells model (*) $N_{n+1}-Nₙ=-\delta ₙNₙ+Pₙe^{-a{N}_{n-k}}$, where δₙ and Pₙ are positive sequences. In the autonomous case we show that (*) has a unique positive steady state N*, we establish some sufficient conditions for oscillation of all positive solutions about N*, and when k = 1 we give a sufficient condition for N* to be globally asymptotically stable. In the nonatonomous case, assuming that there exists a positive solution Nₙ*, we present necessary and sufficient conditions for oscillation...

Some new oscillation and nonoscillation criteria for the second order neutral delay difference equation $$\Delta \left(c_n\Delta (y_n+p_n{y}_{n-k})\right)+q_n{y}_{n+1-m}^{\beta }=0,n\ge n_0$$ where $k$, $m$ are positive integers and $\beta$ is a ratio of odd positive integers are established, under the condition ${\sum }_{n=n_0}^{\infty }\frac{1}{c_n}<\infty .$

Consider the difference equation $$\Delta x\left(n\right)+\sum _{i=1}^m{p}_i\left(n\right)x\left({\tau }_i\left(n\right)\right)=0,n\ge 0\left[\nabla x\left(n\right)-\sum _{i=1}^m{p}_i\left(n\right)x\left({\sigma }_i\left(n\right)\right)=0,n\ge 1\right],$$ where $\left(p_i\left(n\right)\right)$, $1\le i\le m$ are sequences of nonnegative real numbers, ${\tau }_i\left(n\right)$ [${\sigma }_i\left(n\right)$], $1\le i\le m$ are general retarded (advanced) arguments and $\Delta$ [$\nabla$] denotes the forward (backward) difference operator $\Delta x\left(n\right)=x(n+1)-x\left(n\right)$ [$\nabla x\left(n\right)=x\left(n\right)-x(n-1)$]. New oscillation criteria are established when the well-known oscillation conditions $$\underset{n\to \infty }{lim\; sup}\sum _{i=1}^m\sum _{j=\tau \left(n\right)}^n{p}_i\left(j\right)>1\left[\underset{n\to \infty }{lim\; sup}\sum _{i=1}^m\sum _{j=n}^{\sigma \left(n\right)}{p}_i\left(j\right)>1\right]$$ and $$\underset{n\to \infty }{lim\; inf}\sum _{i=1}^m\sum _{j={\tau }_i\left(n\right)}^{n-1}{p}_i\left(j\right)>\frac{1}{\mathrm{e}}\left[\underset{n\to \infty }{lim\; inf}\sum _{i=1}^m\sum _{j=n+1}^{{\sigma }_i\left(n\right)}{p}_i\left(j\right)>\frac{1}{\mathrm{e}}\right]$$ are not satisfied. Here $\tau \left(n\right)={max}_{1\le i\le m}{\tau }_i\left(n\right)$$[\sigma ...$