Advances in Difference Equations
Volume 2006 (2006), Article ID 94051, 19 pages
doi:10.1155/ADE/2006/94051

Delay dynamic equations with stability

Douglas R. Anderson,1 Robert J. Krueger,2 and Allan C. Peterson3

1Department of Mathematics, Concordia College, Moorhead 56562, MN, USA
2Department of Mathematics, Concordia University, St. Paul 55104, USA
3Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln 68588, NE, USA

Received 13 August 2005; Accepted 23 October 2005

Copyright © 2006 Douglas R. Anderson et al. 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

We first give conditions which guarantee that every solution of a first order linear delay dynamic equation for isolated time scales vanishes at infinity. Several interesting examples are given. In the last half of the paper, we give conditions under which the trivial solution of a nonlinear delay dynamic equation is asymptotically stable, for arbitrary time scales.