Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 392386, 12 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/392386
Research Article

Qualitative Behaviors of Functional Differential Equations of Third Order with Multiple Deviating Arguments

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, Yüzüncü Yıl University, 65080 Van, Turkey

Received 14 September 2012; Accepted 24 September 2012

Academic Editor: Muhammad Aslam Noor

Copyright © 2012 Cemil Tunç. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

This paper considers nonautonomous functional differential equations of the third order with multiple constant deviating arguments. Using the Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional approach, we find certain sufficient conditions for the solutions to be stable and bounded. We give an example to illustrate the theoretical analysis made in this work and to show the effectiveness of the method utilized here.