Applied Mathematics Letters 26 (2013) 1099–1105
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Applied Mathematics Letters
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On the boundedness of a class of nonlinear dynamic
equations of second order
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Qing-Hua Ma
a,∗
, Jun-Wei Wang
a
, Xiao-Hua Ke
a
, Josip Pečarić
b
a
Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou 510420, PR China
b
Faculty of Textile Technology, University of Zagreb, Pierottijeva 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
a r t i c l e i n f o
Article history:
Received 9 May 2013
Received in revised form 13 June 2013
Accepted 14 June 2013
Keywords:
Time scales
Dynamic equation
Integral inequality
Boundedness
a b s t r a c t
In this paper, a generalized nonlinear dynamic integral inequality on time scales is
established and then is used to study the boundedness of a class of nonlinear second-
order dynamic equations on time scales. These theorems contain as special cases results
for second-order differential equations, difference equations and q-difference equations.
© 2013 The Author. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
1. Introduction
To unify and extend continuous and discrete analyses, the theory of time scales was introduced by Hilger [1] in his
Ph.D. Thesis in 1988. Since then, the theory has been evolving, and it has been applied to various fields of mathematics; for
example, see [2,3] and the references therein. It is well known that Gronwall-type integral inequalities and their discrete
analogues play a dominant role in the study of quantitative properties of solutions of differential, integral and difference
equations. During the last few years, some Gronwall-type integral inequalities on time scales and their applications have
been investigated by many authors. For example, we refer readers to [4–10]. In this paper, motivated by the paper [5], we
establish a new nonlinear Gronwall–Bellman type dynamic inequality on time scales, and then using the dynamic inequality
we obtain the bounds on the solutions of a class of nonlinear dynamic equations of second order on time scales, which has
generalized the main result of [5]. For all the detailed definitions, notation and theorems on time scales, we refer the readers
to the excellent monographs [2,3] and references given therein. We also present some preliminary results that are needed
in the remainder of this paper as useful lemmas for the discussion of our proof.
In what follows, R denotes the set of real numbers, R
+
= [0, +∞); C(M, S) denotes the class of all continuous functions
defined on set M with range in set S, T is an arbitrary time scale, and C
rd
denotes the set of rd-continuous functions.
Throughout this paper, we always assume that t
0
∈ T, T
0
= [t
0
, +∞) ∩ T.
2. A nonlinear Bihari-type dynamic inequality and some lemmas
Lemma 2.1 ([9]). Suppose u(t), a(t) ∈ C
rd
(T
0
, R
+
), and a is nondecreasing, f (t, s), f
∆
t
(t, s) ∈ C
rd
(T
0
×T
0
, R
+
), ω ∈ C(R
+
, R
+
)
is nondecreasing. If for t ∈ T
0
, u(t) satisfies the following inequality
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∗
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E-mail addresses: gdqhma@21cn.com, mqh@gdufs.edu.cn (Q.-H. Ma), pecaric@element.hr (J. Pečarić).
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