<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v3.0 20080202//EN" "http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/3.0/journalpublishing3.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="3.0" xml:lang="en" article-type="research article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">AM</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Applied Mathematics</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2152-7385</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Scientific Research Publishing</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4236/am.2012.36089</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">AM-20282</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline-v2"><subject>Physics&amp;Mathematics</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>
 
 
  Oscillation of Higher Order Linear Impulsive Dynamic Equations on Time Scales
 
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>haolong</surname><given-names>Zhang</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Feiqi</surname><given-names>Deng</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1"><addr-line>College of Automation Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China</addr-line></aff><author-notes><corresp id="cor1">* E-mail:<email>zhcl88@126.com(HZ)</email>;<email>aufqdeng@scut.edu.cn(FD)</email>;</corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>21</day><month>06</month><year>2012</year></pub-date><volume>03</volume><issue>06</issue><fpage>581</fpage><lpage>586</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>February</day>	<month>18,</month>	<year>2012</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>April</day>	<month>17,</month>	<year>2012</year>	</date><date date-type="accepted"><day>April</day>	<month>24,</month>	<year>2012</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#169; Copyright  2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. </copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><license><license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>
 
 
  In this paper, we will establish some oscillation criteria for the higher order linear dynamic equation on time scale in term of the coefficients and the graininess function. We illustrate our results with an example.
 
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Oscillation; High Order; Dynamic Equation; Time Scale; Riccati Tramsformation</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>1. Introduction</title><p>Since Stefen Hilger formed the definition of derivatives and integrals on time scales, several authors has expounded on various aspects of the new theory, see the papers by Agarwal et al. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.20282-ref1">1</xref>] and the references cited therein.</p><p>A book on the subject of time scale, i.e., measure chain, by Bohner and Peterson [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.20282-ref2">2</xref>] summarize and organizes much of time scale calculus on time scale and references given therein.</p><p>A time scale <img src="14-7400360\8bdc6393-23f4-4b30-9166-2bdf98e3e3da.jpg" /> is an arbitrary closed subset reals, and the cases when this tie sale is equal to the reals or to the integers represent the classical theories of differential and of difference equations.</p><p>In recent years there has been much research activity concerning the oscillation and non-oscillation of solution of some differential equations on time scales,we refer the reader to the few papers [3-7].</p><p>In [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.20282-ref4">4</xref>], the authors considered the second order dynamic equation</p><p><img src="14-7400360\a8b2513f-5ba7-4f90-9cc9-757f729c38d8.jpg" /></p><p>and some sufficient conditions for oscillation of all solution on unbounded time scales are given. But, the oscillation criteria are not considered the impulsive influence. It is rarely about the oscillation of higher order impulsive dynamic equations on time scales.</p><p>In this paper we shall consider the following linear higher order impulsive dynamic equation</p><disp-formula id="scirp.20282-formula35853"><label>(1)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="14-7400360\65de8a50-2bf2-4799-9b48-3486d1d22830.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where n is even, <img src="14-7400360\af3b19d3-f01e-45f3-86ae-c69164f43df1.jpg" />, <img src="14-7400360\9a5984ae-6cc6-4681-98a1-aab398e38901.jpg" />is positive real-valued rd-continuous functions defined on the time scales and</p><p>(H<sub>1</sub>): <img src="14-7400360\fd2ab572-ab29-4cb6-8812-31cb2f4daddd.jpg" /></p><p><img src="14-7400360\13c2b800-b773-440d-82df-a2b3975d5bc2.jpg" /></p><p><img src="14-7400360\7b827467-e6ac-4d22-931b-48a434f006b4.jpg" /><img src="14-7400360\e98d7631-3dd8-4d14-8f10-9ea7ea2f2d1b.jpg" /></p><p>Throughout the remainder of the paper, we assume that, for each <img src="14-7400360\a50fed39-e45a-4a80-bfa3-171d281bf98a.jpg" /> the points of impulses <img src="14-7400360\d5c39d54-b241-4554-b193-7a439fec7fbd.jpg" /> are right dense (rd for short). In order to define the solutions of the problem (1), we introduce the following space</p><p><img src="14-7400360\23d54a63-86ba-4930-b0cb-e668067327e3.jpg" /></p><p><img src="14-7400360\710c2549-01a5-4976-95e5-9c5bf3e376e5.jpg" /></p><p>Definition 1. A function <img src="14-7400360\161603df-a6da-4939-9ce9-ba61524c28ee.jpg" /> is said to be a solution of (1), if it satisfies</p><p><img src="14-7400360\d18de4cf-09ad-4d75-84b2-bf7dfe574b0c.jpg" />a.e. on<img src="14-7400360\f4d47367-fc01-41fe-bdc6-07c26bd29d6d.jpg" />, and for each <img src="14-7400360\ba34b586-3c89-475e-b35b-67029c71d626.jpg" /> satisfies the impulsive condition <img src="14-7400360\bb7514f2-6b15-4dfd-bed2-b3034c9fb237.jpg" /> and the initial conditions<img src="14-7400360\f85f19d7-f29b-4f9e-9eb2-ef5bb280e8f8.jpg" />,<img src="14-7400360\dd83dc67-898e-4070-9116-8a313a0b6124.jpg" />.</p><p>Before doing so, let us first recall that a solution of (1) is a nontrivial real function <img src="14-7400360\78c10493-f694-4005-86cc-d4bb1c4fef1d.jpg" /> satisfying Equation (1) for<img src="14-7400360\d93feb10-347c-4a69-a856-65f65567dbaa.jpg" />. A solution <img src="14-7400360\cc49eeba-1779-4ec0-bb48-d4c40327cf46.jpg" /> of (1) is said to be oscillatory if it is neither eventually positive nor eventually negative, otherwise it is non-oscillatory. Equation (1) is said to be oscillatory if all its solutions are oscillatory. Our attention is restricted to those solutions of (1) which exist on some half line <img src="14-7400360\6e1eeaf6-603b-4dfc-8b10-0946466cb9db.jpg" /> and satisfy <img src="14-7400360\507dd527-e44d-46ad-ab7a-d721827723eb.jpg" />for any <img src="14-7400360\f71d88bb-9f69-4c35-8164-e34bd26b535c.jpg" /></p></sec><sec id="s2"><title>2. Preliminaries</title><p>A time scale <img src="14-7400360\7b3b3942-f354-4bbe-9db4-c05e4cb5c91e.jpg" /> is an arbitrary non-empty closed subset of the real numbers<img src="14-7400360\3b9da391-8631-44df-a605-e74e9a3e633c.jpg" />. Since we are interested in oscillatory behavior, we suppose that the time scale under consideration is not bounded above, i.e., it is a time scale interval of the form<img src="14-7400360\063278d7-541f-437b-97af-4492a8f83d4e.jpg" />. On any time scale we define the forward and backward jump operators by</p><disp-formula id="scirp.20282-formula35854"><label>(2)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="14-7400360\108bc34e-9e27-486d-bc87-922cbdcd68ad.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>A point t is said to be left-dense if<img src="14-7400360\446c83e5-8e0d-49fd-9edf-06dcf403e66a.jpg" />, right-dense if <img src="14-7400360\29253278-dd47-473e-befd-0d43bb49842c.jpg" /> left scattered if<img src="14-7400360\6a6331eb-e61e-45ff-80de-8bd8acae9ba8.jpg" />, and right-scattered if <img src="14-7400360\7112a1bf-b4be-45fe-8e87-5d4f9efb0eec.jpg" /> The graininess <img src="14-7400360\b749913d-fed9-4b7a-a6f5-8236402dd468.jpg" /> of the time scale is define by <img src="14-7400360\f62f1901-7682-419c-b5ca-29456f9a20a3.jpg" /> The set <img src="14-7400360\d41d30d6-c041-4100-a5e9-3181d20bf410.jpg" /> is derived from <img src="14-7400360\a4e0b058-7086-4e9b-90df-862609cec8fd.jpg" /> as follow: If <img src="14-7400360\5760d12d-47c9-421a-9da6-a2c2dad2ea98.jpg" /> has a left-scattered maximum m, then <img src="14-7400360\ae5b89d8-b050-4bc7-b517-106e2e4d2714.jpg" /> otherwise, <img src="14-7400360\2258dc9c-7811-4100-a74a-24e8f67b0a60.jpg" /></p><p>For a function <img src="14-7400360\7c859c9b-cfd8-4756-9e13-3523ce849db6.jpg" /> (the range <img src="14-7400360\3b4b3dd4-20b1-4b11-a689-a06dac001ccc.jpg" /> of may actually be replaced by any Banach space), the (delta) derivative is defined by</p><disp-formula id="scirp.20282-formula35855"><label>(3)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="14-7400360\9006a40a-81ab-4cb7-8026-f5c218f5f720.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>A function <img src="14-7400360\fd21c4f0-8550-415e-b6e7-5f0ade950e51.jpg" /> is said to be re-continuous at each right-dense point and if there exists a finite left limit in all left-dense points, and f is said to be differentiable if its derivative exists, the derivative and the shift operator <img src="14-7400360\d1c70afd-a017-4107-86cd-388608e3c921.jpg" /> are related by the formula</p><disp-formula id="scirp.20282-formula35856"><label>(4)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="14-7400360\45901de6-aedd-41a5-a519-c35b2a175715.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>We will make use of the following product and quotient rules for the derivative of the product fg and the quotient f/g of two differentiable functions f and g</p><disp-formula id="scirp.20282-formula35857"><label>(5)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="14-7400360\c5431f31-fc25-41eb-9e1d-29861691434b.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.20282-formula35858"><label>(6)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="14-7400360\7aecd4cd-4cec-4cd6-97ac-dcf9a310d909.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>The integration by parts formula reads</p><disp-formula id="scirp.20282-formula35859"><label>(7)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="14-7400360\0db72020-8032-4573-92ca-313cb15a68fe.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Remark 1. We note that if<img src="14-7400360\0270bd2d-9c71-4b55-933b-f733268ba5a5.jpg" />, then<img src="14-7400360\4d198656-4b4f-4548-ac6b-2d082ab4a7eb.jpg" />, <img src="14-7400360\3b95efac-0550-4596-a958-baea9059a979.jpg" />, <img src="14-7400360\a0aaaafe-f188-4f37-912f-96c8e6de6235.jpg" />and (1) becomes the higher order differential equation</p><p><img src="14-7400360\90a84402-0d40-44bd-9414-2c6d7a6f2889.jpg" /></p><p>If <img src="14-7400360\5a5bc7e1-fdcf-4598-9d4e-1efaa841660e.jpg" /> then<img src="14-7400360\720b6345-a887-417c-bfe2-d68528970baa.jpg" />, <img src="14-7400360\0da657bc-5509-4fae-9e8e-3f5cea17a134.jpg" />,</p><p><img src="14-7400360\903d9afe-bae1-481b-b0a0-4e97f192c312.jpg" /></p><p>and (1) becomes the higher order difference equation</p><p><img src="14-7400360\65e994aa-c452-4077-a40f-4e9dd2b0a47a.jpg" /></p><p>If<img src="14-7400360\d36c04ff-2256-45e4-bc12-2c632eb0b00a.jpg" />, <img src="14-7400360\3af105a4-eb25-467a-b440-0805e8337fb9.jpg" />then <img src="14-7400360\14cb0487-51b4-45dc-92a6-776de8734562.jpg" /> <img src="14-7400360\38ef9654-3f7f-4920-8063-42236fb0fde9.jpg" /></p><p><img src="14-7400360\7c2328be-a1ec-44c0-b654-e2553ba1dbd2.jpg" /></p><p>and (1) becomes the higher order difference equation</p><p><img src="14-7400360\a0689337-0c98-4bf2-ba11-e91937ab5511.jpg" /></p><p>If <img src="14-7400360\0842ba65-387b-4846-b236-e094d4dc7776.jpg" /> then<img src="14-7400360\f7a36458-45e3-4aed-b9e6-f3d1bee50272.jpg" />, <img src="14-7400360\f46ab6f0-2b8b-4af4-ae0c-5b3bfdfd1ad4.jpg" /></p><p><img src="14-7400360\3463e0bb-7e27-4a7d-9fd1-32332df630c8.jpg" /></p><p>and (1) becomes the higher order difference equation</p><p><img src="14-7400360\ef6005e1-6d35-4ce1-a695-8c1e1f395160.jpg" /></p><p>If <img src="14-7400360\c8941af8-d7ab-481b-8cf5-b1ba45d66a8e.jpg" /> then <img src="14-7400360\ddef6b39-4752-4cde-b56c-dc1d7f456eb7.jpg" /> and <img src="14-7400360\ee78bd10-8c0c-453a-b778-db268f8224ff.jpg" /></p><p><img src="14-7400360\56a3d456-d653-47ba-8693-855549021c7b.jpg" /></p><p>and (1) becomes the higher order difference equation</p><p><img src="14-7400360\0ae2e7af-0ee4-47bf-8263-a58a75f2121c.jpg" /></p></sec><sec id="s3"><title>3. Main Results</title><p>In the following, we will prove some lemmas, which will be useful for establishing oscillation criteria .</p><p>Lemma 1. Let <img src="14-7400360\4328b54f-1803-4d76-bccf-d6b84d2de5fa.jpg" /> and<img src="14-7400360\3e5561af-1d0c-49dc-8c23-2c6b458102b8.jpg" />. Then</p><p><img src="14-7400360\94771e5f-6c4f-484c-a8a8-cd1066329ec7.jpg" /></p><p>implies, for all <img src="14-7400360\d5888bca-4d41-4958-abbf-67c53141e442.jpg" /></p><disp-formula id="scirp.20282-formula35860"><label>(8)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="14-7400360\2909d091-9d09-4a5c-9e0e-6b3c62935928.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>See<img src="14-7400360\6682f062-6bd0-4120-970c-03e6a0dcef2e.jpg" />.</p><p>Lemma 2. Assume that <img src="14-7400360\2ce70459-08b5-4465-bed6-dd97e7d8c7a9.jpg" /> and</p><disp-formula id="scirp.20282-formula35861"><label>(9)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="14-7400360\95a4477b-1126-4801-8db0-8645428ec1d8.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>then for <img src="14-7400360\c079a726-06e4-4044-8f4d-d35cf2806c08.jpg" /></p><disp-formula id="scirp.20282-formula35862"><label>(10)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="14-7400360\5fdeab1a-0c7b-42d7-adbe-2e98ca636e68.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Proof. Let<img src="14-7400360\1004881c-d8fa-432b-ac35-7966b42a042b.jpg" />, use Lemma 1, we obtain</p><p><img src="14-7400360\57a02f51-02d3-4c71-b103-1e26cf144986.jpg" /></p><p>Hence (10) is true for<img src="14-7400360\48e142b5-964f-44df-a655-16c69575b3ad.jpg" />. Now assume that</p><p>(10) holds for <img src="14-7400360\e3592340-9e92-47f4-b6a0-f72b55b164c0.jpg" /> for some integer<img src="14-7400360\ca630435-f8b7-48ca-95e1-c8d696fd296f.jpg" />. Then for<img src="14-7400360\5694f780-cf0c-43c5-aa64-57b8baf4740c.jpg" />, it follows from (9) and Lemma 1, we get</p><p><img src="14-7400360\895e5c35-ea25-4037-8aeb-57a4cfb95017.jpg" /></p><p>Using (9), we obtain from (10)</p><p><img src="14-7400360\9441998b-3a33-4ccb-92e4-d81bc27a79ed.jpg" /></p><p>which on simplification gives the estimate (10) for<img src="14-7400360\e72d4a87-6ad1-4983-8a5e-c1571897a99c.jpg" />, by induction, we get (10) holds for<img src="14-7400360\73a0f6ba-50e7-48a1-a601-9e15aa7952f9.jpg" />.</p><p>Lemma 3. Let <img src="14-7400360\61e813ad-17e3-48e0-afc8-a00e56b94ffb.jpg" /> be a solution of (1), and conditions (H<sub>1</sub>) are satisfied. Suppose that there exists an <img src="14-7400360\7f3ccd7a-dabb-4219-8d45-d6524e5c0f82.jpg" /> and some<img src="14-7400360\01fe6ac1-b08c-46c1-a47e-9855f8273ea5.jpg" />, such that</p><p><img src="14-7400360\8e0ac7d5-28fc-4f78-a5cf-76ad575d0ba2.jpg" />, <img src="14-7400360\5d81a4e5-d0f9-4a7c-bcd0-c9bb9b7684b9.jpg" />for<img src="14-7400360\81fa3f52-fff1-402c-b318-67b3923f51f0.jpg" />. Then, there exists some <img src="14-7400360\19d975b8-8323-415a-bb47-ec087292aad6.jpg" /> such that <img src="14-7400360\7ca49021-2a41-4c7f-bf19-7da7d7304e48.jpg" /> for<img src="14-7400360\44ce3e54-e96a-47e3-be9b-4452ac219306.jpg" />.</p><p>Proof. Without loss of generality, let<img src="14-7400360\5af70b11-684c-417d-8436-3dc653ea632b.jpg" />. Assume that for any<img src="14-7400360\4b5076ab-efb5-4ca8-9c87-8ddb30d635f3.jpg" />,<img src="14-7400360\099e4ac6-62fb-465b-9ca0-44401243a770.jpg" />. By<img src="14-7400360\e11df4c0-18e6-4086-823b-8b27634ffe86.jpg" />,</p><p><img src="14-7400360\6aa002f1-0541-4349-8ce8-1ba5e1948d88.jpg" />, <img src="14-7400360\a266687a-f751-446e-b78f-dad941ac0f39.jpg" />, we have that <img src="14-7400360\c7fc5494-9db4-467d-bd14-395aea209845.jpg" /> is monotonically nondecreasing on<img src="14-7400360\60fcbd7d-b5ec-451b-837a-8caf0e7b8f81.jpg" />. For<img src="14-7400360\db71754b-960d-436e-acc4-e23d72754af2.jpg" />, we have</p><p><img src="14-7400360\aa0d5177-84b2-49c8-95e6-f99a81052794.jpg" /></p><p>Integrating the above inequality, we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.20282-formula35863"><label>(11)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="14-7400360\25678b0a-520f-4941-9d15-87123089c6a5.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Similar to (11),</p><disp-formula id="scirp.20282-formula35864"><label>(12)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="14-7400360\6fe5e702-a66f-44da-8fbf-58cf8aad7a4d.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By <img src="14-7400360\3f579698-6b0d-4fae-a956-4a7430ac3e8e.jpg" /> and (11), (12), we have</p><p><img src="14-7400360\66b2f0b1-c2a3-48ee-8d48-2adec6ce878f.jpg" /></p><p>Applying induction we have, for any natural number m,</p><disp-formula id="scirp.20282-formula35865"><label>(13)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="14-7400360\9ad5727f-4553-43a5-a430-c8b050d6d0ee.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By condition (H<sub>1</sub>) and <img src="14-7400360\574a6ec6-422d-407b-8227-2be2fca789e6.jpg" /> for all sufficiently large m, we have<img src="14-7400360\e288ff7c-152e-490a-abcc-d15191a5caa3.jpg" />. i.e., there exists a natural number N, when<img src="14-7400360\1b2efb90-8924-4272-9c93-275c3d7e9825.jpg" />, we have<img src="14-7400360\b4da2126-ee2b-4049-99b4-0f5abd16d5d1.jpg" />. By</p><p><img src="14-7400360\dd1ddfcc-8c5a-4fde-a77f-95ddb2fb2b21.jpg" />again, we have<img src="14-7400360\5cfb028c-7d17-45c8-821d-7e2efbd5f1b5.jpg" />, for</p><p><img src="14-7400360\8f02be2c-8e64-4c9b-8dbf-38af7e043cdc.jpg" />. When<img src="14-7400360\f6601b48-84a0-4563-957d-030c771ef74a.jpg" />, we have<img src="14-7400360\248777ca-237d-4e12-809e-fef30d7099d3.jpg" />, where<img src="14-7400360\ec396d6a-4b19-4be9-bd99-316a33b8baf8.jpg" />. The proof of Lemma 3 is completed.</p><p>Lemma 4. Let <img src="14-7400360\ab7e7ea9-3ea1-4dbd-a41e-7111cefd05bd.jpg" /> be a solution of (1) and conditions (H<sub>1</sub>) are satisfied. Suppose that there exists an <img src="14-7400360\e71ce63f-1768-4b2d-8bda-0da738f0198c.jpg" /> and some <img src="14-7400360\f5334f5d-96d5-4746-b72d-f2aa0f02b236.jpg" /> such that<img src="14-7400360\74171d59-fdb3-43e6-993c-be8af86f08ce.jpg" />, <img src="14-7400360\fd86001f-4985-4352-9169-0a5d33ec4afa.jpg" />for<img src="14-7400360\6efcdb35-0ac5-4c77-9755-c61f44cb8573.jpg" />. <img src="14-7400360\ffd4c3ef-3945-4fed-920f-5d5ae710a68b.jpg" />is not always equal to 0 in <img src="14-7400360\26ace6ad-779d-406a-ae65-496148c9f746.jpg" /> for<img src="14-7400360\8a20e1a6-bbee-4bc9-9b7a-92218751d582.jpg" />. Then we have <img src="14-7400360\eaaa0efe-129c-45d7-ab6d-c475a70466d6.jpg" /> for all sufficiently large t.</p><p>Proof. Without loss of generality, let<img src="14-7400360\3f10965c-74ed-4c21-9695-dba73fb0f545.jpg" />. We claim that <img src="14-7400360\0e230a92-1c10-4207-99f1-43d76ea8864c.jpg" /> for any<img src="14-7400360\52582827-1df0-438a-868f-f93d2bc85c56.jpg" />.</p><p>If it is not true, then there exists some <img src="14-7400360\40f7e006-3efd-4ba7-a468-8a7fdb5379cd.jpg" /> such that<img src="14-7400360\41c5d7b0-8b7a-473d-9a2f-85a558a13e5b.jpg" />. Since<img src="14-7400360\bafb2236-9e25-4b38-b55e-ff0771c4dbf0.jpg" />, <img src="14-7400360\c8683a6a-c515-48e7-b000-40e27345fff1.jpg" />is monotonically non-increasing in <img src="14-7400360\fe59d904-6835-4a55-a9c8-3ab0fb8a404c.jpg" /> for<img src="14-7400360\9a2813eb-108f-4dfe-b8d4-70ba97824df3.jpg" />. And because <img src="14-7400360\cc02a1f6-a01f-40d7-9b0a-c6b07ab40aa2.jpg" /> is not always equal to 0 in<img src="14-7400360\3663b582-0633-469f-956c-6c5bc3425d92.jpg" />, there exists some <img src="14-7400360\454c84be-8f97-43d9-90a7-7b685f1634be.jpg" /> such that <img src="14-7400360\5322b1eb-0240-4400-aaa2-fce0f2864eb4.jpg" /> is not always equal to 0 in<img src="14-7400360\d7d8997c-cd4e-4569-8afa-8501ada0823d.jpg" />. Without loss of generality,we can assume<img src="14-7400360\b4da85e1-c108-4694-bf90-08a04db16b2b.jpg" />, that is, <img src="14-7400360\6532b1e2-856f-4796-94ff-15e0af0e0a8c.jpg" />is not always equal to 0 in<img src="14-7400360\8e33b01f-3715-43b3-a342-9316863cb1dd.jpg" />.So we have</p><p><img src="14-7400360\b6dc4730-eec0-4824-b182-0a9ad9e375a3.jpg" /></p><p>For<img src="14-7400360\4e388335-4e0b-4a42-8b28-cbfa89471ad3.jpg" />, we have</p><p><img src="14-7400360\7e9bceb7-6540-48cb-8d49-60311708ebb2.jpg" /></p><p>By induction, for<img src="14-7400360\01d74d9f-979b-497a-a955-d8d12ac3ced3.jpg" />, we have <img src="14-7400360\286ee5eb-0656-45b6-85c5-fea363443496.jpg" />. So we have</p><p><img src="14-7400360\a059d4dd-3d00-413c-8968-14e9a2563df3.jpg" /></p><p>By Lemma 3, for all sufficiently large t, we have<img src="14-7400360\1b2a11bf-8706-4ca0-be3e-160e1c6e093a.jpg" />. Similarly, we can conclude, by using Lemma 3 repeatedly, that for all sufficiently large t,<img src="14-7400360\f220953c-0b29-4b31-b469-08b1d5be67e3.jpg" />. This is a contradiction with<img src="14-7400360\62dc8b8b-c406-43bd-867f-0f40b79a55f3.jpg" />! Hence, we have <img src="14-7400360\b63d5b75-0455-4790-b5cb-f20f18ac9df4.jpg" /> for any<img src="14-7400360\f3851494-fcf2-496c-8a68-827b8ea4ac96.jpg" />. So we have <img src="14-7400360\ab214da8-b249-4f59-8901-c0e83abe98e6.jpg" /> for all sufficiently large t. The proof of Lemma 4 is completed.</p><p>Lemma 5. Let <img src="14-7400360\f3013a5b-dd1b-44bc-8dcc-bc825e6a97a3.jpg" /> be a solution of (1) and conditions (H<sub>1</sub>) are satisfied. Suppose <img src="14-7400360\2ef4b56a-9b07-47bd-8d1d-0f816b3252f5.jpg" /> and <img src="14-7400360\69f77a38-b5c0-4686-804d-bc896e9a2837.jpg" /> for<img src="14-7400360\ed3dafc1-d08f-4cf6-800f-09897585a134.jpg" />. Then there exist some <img src="14-7400360\807cac77-1e77-4510-9749-d51a0fc064bc.jpg" /> and <img src="14-7400360\2a7c717a-9800-4765-b15a-26c6deb47cc6.jpg" /> such that for<img src="14-7400360\ce783301-9225-4da7-b63d-77f32c1fb90a.jpg" />,</p><disp-formula id="scirp.20282-formula35866"><label>(14)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="14-7400360\34dcc661-567f-4750-a5a6-45440677bf71.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Proof. Let<img src="14-7400360\322fb90f-d0bb-46d2-8093-be90a16fd8e4.jpg" />, for <img src="14-7400360\34acc312-ac47-41ab-aa45-26c9a1caf9ad.jpg" /> by (1) and <img src="14-7400360\4ee1d97a-8f67-49ae-a397-c1f10b753be2.jpg" /> is nonnegative and is not always equal to 0 in any<img src="14-7400360\af3e95ba-bb45-4ce9-b799-6a8643580e91.jpg" />,</p><p><img src="14-7400360\6c74c917-857b-4998-ad17-43d1d898c88a.jpg" /></p><p><img src="14-7400360\db5f6494-cff9-4904-902a-e20ad1c3cf97.jpg" />is not always equal to 0 in<img src="14-7400360\937b0cbd-55a8-4da0-9158-5953098d3f84.jpg" />, by Lemma 4. So we have <img src="14-7400360\27e62efe-be23-4444-99a8-e91a0e01ab7f.jpg" /> for all sufficiently large t. Without loss of generality, let<img src="14-7400360\3ccc9a14-dac4-4e94-8396-3966264db6f3.jpg" />,<img src="14-7400360\b7ed9bb6-1905-4cd4-8caa-6c9e6f9f335f.jpg" />. So <img src="14-7400360\51633416-9fd7-4fd9-8f40-7f315a987a33.jpg" /> is monotonically non-decreasing in<img src="14-7400360\1e7adba5-3a63-478d-86be-bae00fec16da.jpg" />.</p><p>If for any<img src="14-7400360\25775593-8ffb-40c8-a4ac-976d701c7d5d.jpg" />, <img src="14-7400360\a1c63a48-ac38-4fa3-9713-78d7d0a597c4.jpg" />, then<img src="14-7400360\1a178180-298f-43bc-a415-3fd0d2657d23.jpg" />.</p><p>If there exists some<img src="14-7400360\4e179505-1100-42ba-bc4a-61fc1c8d5ab0.jpg" />, <img src="14-7400360\033fec95-bc97-400d-9431-bdd88ac27e86.jpg" />, by <img src="14-7400360\f321cc1f-bc3b-43ae-a48e-d4b4433d4330.jpg" /> is monotonically nondecreasing and<img src="14-7400360\a7a08d3c-3162-4aa7-81bf-32022d9196d7.jpg" />, then <img src="14-7400360\5c19000e-dbb8-4596-8720-501448cc484d.jpg" /> for<img src="14-7400360\feeeff20-6f9e-4838-a339-6cb4ea119d8f.jpg" />. So there exists some<img src="14-7400360\b71eb8a0-b5b7-4117-8c8b-8fe4b4882dd3.jpg" />, when<img src="14-7400360\0c7e1bc8-c5a3-4f31-959c-23b25c43fa5b.jpg" />, then one of the following statements holds:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.20282-formula35867"><label>(A1)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="14-7400360\6f192ac1-693d-460d-9991-e00b3686e549.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.20282-formula35868"><label>(B1)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="14-7400360\e7c2a7b9-bb00-4f09-a757-23d961ca588e.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>when (A<sub>1</sub>) holds, by Lemma 3, then<img src="14-7400360\a53fed8a-1730-4e6b-bbc3-7547057ba9ae.jpg" />, for all sufficiently large t. By Lemma 3 over and over again, at last, for all sufficiently large t, we have</p><p><img src="14-7400360\fed348e0-1ba8-4491-9c60-b6d99a7a40c6.jpg" /></p><p>When (B<sub>1</sub>) holds, by Lemma 4, then<img src="14-7400360\78e788f7-99ed-480f-927b-6413d214e94c.jpg" />, for all sufficiently large t. By deducing further, there exists some<img src="14-7400360\ae5dd15b-c294-4c7c-a9d3-a0b7b46799df.jpg" />, when<img src="14-7400360\5f2c31a4-69e9-4558-b9cb-3d85199a9400.jpg" />, then one of the following statements holds:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.20282-formula35869"><label>(A2)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="14-7400360\678a48d6-5801-4903-9cc0-e0d99b6c9533.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.20282-formula35870"><label>(B2)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="14-7400360\12299613-4e3d-400b-9011-771727ea4394.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>discuss the above over and over,eventually, there exists some <img src="14-7400360\3b565e8a-66ba-4510-b751-2780f519d7a8.jpg" /> and<img src="14-7400360\e219f975-e5b6-4801-86e6-3579d0fd1ca9.jpg" />, when<img src="14-7400360\506fce30-5a47-4fba-91aa-cddae8f0a6bb.jpg" />, we have</p><p><img src="14-7400360\a389cbc7-5700-42cc-b2da-7be715a11554.jpg" /></p><p>The proof of Lemma 5 is completed.</p><p>Remark 2. If <img src="14-7400360\eac87143-6c6e-4d1b-bf03-bdb910bb9347.jpg" /> is an eventually negative solution of (1),we have conclusions similar to Lemma 4 and Lemma 5.</p><p>Theorem 1. If conditions (H<sub>1</sub>) hold, and</p><disp-formula id="scirp.20282-formula35871"><label>(15)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="14-7400360\f0bb0b92-9611-4f2c-b469-dccc3f0c8b47.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>then every solution of (1) is oscillatory.</p><p>Proof. Let <img src="14-7400360\6e03b3da-3f19-4c78-a90a-bfcb467956ed.jpg" /> be a non-oscillatory solution of (1). Without loss of generality, let <img src="14-7400360\4f95bb88-97db-4e72-8fe1-11d67f4c2be5.jpg" /> By Lemma 5 and (1), there exists <img src="14-7400360\a6eacac6-83b7-46fc-9975-422f37ee959c.jpg" /> when<img src="14-7400360\2a05ba67-f679-4cad-9ac1-fac2680c1ab8.jpg" />, we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.20282-formula35872"><label>(16)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="14-7400360\b7ae6b0e-104e-4405-9cca-810ee6a5471c.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Let<img src="14-7400360\357efd33-d395-4722-84a1-b155644b1110.jpg" />. when<img src="14-7400360\7912c3c3-f5f6-4bb9-a65a-60dbf574fa3d.jpg" />, <img src="14-7400360\ed017c95-1157-42f2-a4f1-82aa0d68eee8.jpg" />is monotonically non-increasing in <img src="14-7400360\7d9cff42-e00e-4ec5-840d-b8bdf354f7bc.jpg" /> and <img src="14-7400360\a61365f0-c005-443b-95f1-96cd96011799.jpg" /> is monotonically increasing in<img src="14-7400360\5794541e-dc54-4285-acae-d11e5aee3b4c.jpg" />.</p><p>By (1), we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.20282-formula35873"><label>(17)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="14-7400360\b6cce043-628b-4985-8b0a-f86f16b40806.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Integrating (17) from <img src="14-7400360\3ddb0039-46a5-4066-a08c-304c5022c95e.jpg" /> to <img src="14-7400360\e1a38c6b-e38c-48f7-a3bb-e2a5caecbe76.jpg" /> we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.20282-formula35874"><label>(18)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="14-7400360\b328921c-9b6c-4a07-9cb5-f68ee271e74d.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>by the above equation and <img src="14-7400360\61baf02c-8e03-4dd0-9873-6559154b8526.jpg" /> is monotonically increasing, we have</p><p><img src="14-7400360\86da4e4f-141d-4147-8395-966bdb47154f.jpg" /></p><p>then</p><disp-formula id="scirp.20282-formula35875"><label>(19)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="14-7400360\d62fbd69-cc4c-42e1-8336-24de7acf3351.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>similar to (19), we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.20282-formula35876"><label>(20)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="14-7400360\3c8ed9d8-d5b0-4929-8d88-61d6eb0a182e.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By (19), (20) and <img src="14-7400360\f5fc5f61-7d92-4379-b49e-b40701541b04.jpg" /> being monotonically increasing,</p><p><img src="14-7400360\2dd75a8f-dd34-419c-b3c0-57e769e94623.jpg" /></p><p>similarly ,we have</p><p><img src="14-7400360\74d4fcad-e3a8-4233-a28a-eb0f9bfcb1cc.jpg" /></p><p>then</p><p><img src="14-7400360\cfe923a7-2269-4ac6-b643-c4d8366ad649.jpg" /></p><p>By induction we have,for any natural number<img src="14-7400360\8a3dd597-465d-42a5-99cc-9562da01e729.jpg" />,</p><disp-formula id="scirp.20282-formula35877"><label>(21)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="14-7400360\5beb1e81-e656-4615-a145-c0e76bb16ee4.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By (15), (21) and<img src="14-7400360\fd987186-75a9-4ed6-baf8-235a2dc80136.jpg" />, for all sufficiently lager m, we have</p><p><img src="14-7400360\9fc83e87-6a92-4cc7-88dd-8386b04feb9c.jpg" /></p><p>This contradicts<img src="14-7400360\17476718-7dc9-40aa-91d8-f7a41cc49041.jpg" />, for<img src="14-7400360\7fe1c6e0-1b00-4fe2-8cfb-3e9f9d78e188.jpg" />. Hence, every solution of (1) is oscillatory. The proof of theorem 1 is completed.</p><p>Corollary 1. Assume the conditions (H<sub>1</sub>) holds, and there exists a positive integer <img src="14-7400360\da7aca0e-2106-42ec-a426-df2a74d8a5ab.jpg" /> such that <img src="14-7400360\5fb45fe8-83a5-4b36-bdb2-24cb13dd483b.jpg" /> for<img src="14-7400360\7308cfac-87a8-4560-b8ea-b3fa47a85cc8.jpg" />. If<img src="14-7400360\1eb80825-0ab0-4c28-9cef-d85b4467185e.jpg" />, then every solution of (1) is oscillatory.</p><p>Proof. Without loss of generality, let<img src="14-7400360\842daa3c-800f-4d5d-b2a5-f6a37b35edcc.jpg" />. By</p><p><img src="14-7400360\b0f0e6b7-f88b-45d4-b050-5438c6f65769.jpg" />, we get<img src="14-7400360\c03c8a5e-87c5-464d-be46-b9a05eaf4b1e.jpg" />, therefore</p><p><img src="14-7400360\1c8a1f59-aaf9-4616-93d8-f2a02210ceb8.jpg" /></p><p>Let<img src="14-7400360\92039f70-134a-4f04-bbf2-855f60af858b.jpg" />, <img src="14-7400360\2f06a1b3-2782-4fe7-85c6-56b4e0cc408f.jpg" />,we get that (15) of Theorem 1 holds. By Theorem 1, we know that every solution of (1) is oscillatory.</p><p>Corollary 2. Assume the condition (H<sub>1</sub>) holds and there exist a positive integer <img src="14-7400360\c140d62a-8b9c-407b-9294-c70e337ecd10.jpg" /> and some positive integer<img src="14-7400360\6bdff4b8-38fd-48ad-890e-86ed60c0b7d9.jpg" />, such that<img src="14-7400360\d436ec33-67c1-4b07-8391-7047c576a807.jpg" />, for<img src="14-7400360\f4d46b7d-0ca3-4dde-9991-7e3b731d0e94.jpg" />. Furthermore, assume that<img src="14-7400360\64aa1d41-131d-4d56-9a86-88dfa7bce93c.jpg" />, then every solution of (1) is oscillatory.</p><p>Proof. By<img src="14-7400360\06e5699c-0de0-4b80-9058-be57f91b7b78.jpg" />, we have</p><p><img src="14-7400360\2be850ef-d7b6-4c5b-8dd2-17481386e5eb.jpg" /></p><p>Let<img src="14-7400360\74badf48-7a44-420b-84d5-4a0a85aa9872.jpg" />, <img src="14-7400360\040f9460-e85d-4451-8ff0-5398163e725b.jpg" />, we get that (15) of Theorem 1 holds. By Theorem 1, we know that every solution of (1) is oscillatory.</p></sec><sec id="s4"><title>4. Example</title><p>Example. Consider</p><disp-formula id="scirp.20282-formula35878"><label>(22)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="14-7400360\a93f948e-8d0e-4855-b35b-a1494f45139a.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where n is even, <img src="14-7400360\430b0db1-7bc5-4a02-aa4d-b19697f67aa3.jpg" />, <img src="14-7400360\33214a2a-b074-4a0c-821c-8f87ffaae142.jpg" />, <img src="14-7400360\0de0d081-0a14-4afd-b3cd-60ac76e5321f.jpg" />, <img src="14-7400360\41c4bb52-c522-4aca-a711-c337fd2d5314.jpg" />,<img src="14-7400360\da94ddbe-ac03-48ee-9df4-7f2b852a2a83.jpg" />. For condition (H<sub>1</sub>)</p><p>when <img src="14-7400360\8fb04901-626f-4b30-b70d-81f0d55e8b3c.jpg" /></p><p><img src="14-7400360\6e8b252c-3d19-4792-af65-6cd38b9f0301.jpg" /></p><p>From the above, the condition (H<sub>1</sub>) holds.</p><p>Let</p><p><img src="14-7400360\67d39b0e-c62c-4429-a24b-d3ed32eac7b5.jpg" />,</p><p><img src="14-7400360\d1c7ad22-4bcd-4b54-a1dd-4cfe01934daf.jpg" /></p><p>By Corollary 2, we know that every solution of (22) is oscillatory.</p></sec><sec id="s5"><title>REFERENCES</title></sec><sec id="s6"><title>NOTES</title></sec></body><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="scirp.20282-ref1"><label>1</label><mixed-citation publication-type="other" xlink:type="simple">R. P. Agarwal and M. Bohner, “Basic Calculus on Time Scales and Some of Its Applications,” Results in Mathematics, Vol. 35, 1999, pp. 3-22.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="scirp.20282-ref2"><label>2</label><mixed-citation publication-type="other" xlink:type="simple">M. Bohner and A. 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