Sufficient conditions are established for the asymptotic behavior of a third-order nonlinear differential equation. Our results improve on Qian’s [C. Qian, Asymptotic behavior of a third-order nonlinear differential equation, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 284 (2003), 191–205]

This paper is concerned with the oscillation of certain third-order nonlinear delay differential equations with damping. We give new characterizations of oscillation of the third-order equation in terms of oscillation of a related, well-studied, second-order linear differential equation without damping. We also establish new oscillation results for the third-order equation by using the integral...

The authors obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of oscillatory solutions with a specified asymptotic behavior of solutions to a nonlinear neutral differential equation with distributed delay of third order. We give new theorems which ensure that every solution to be either oscillatory or converges to zero asymptotically. Examples dwelling upon the importance of applicab...