Ultimate Boundedness of Solutions of Some System of Third-Order Nonlinear Differential Equations


Ayinla A. Abdurasid, Kehinde D. Aduloju, Musiliu T. Raji, Olufunke R. Vincent, Mathew O. Omeike




This paper presents sufficient conditions for the ultimate boundedness of solutions of some system of third-order nonlinear differential equations \begin{equation*}tackrel{...}{X}+\Psi(\dot{X})ḍot{X}+\Phi(X)\dot{X}+H(X)=P(t,X,\dot{X},ḍot{X}),\end{equation*} where $\Psi,\Phi$ are positive definite symmetric matrices, $H, P$ are $n-$vectors continuous in their respective arguments, $X\in\mathbb{R}^n$ and $t\in\mathbb{R}^+=[0,+\infty).$ We do not necessarily require $H(X)$ differentiable to obtain our results. By using the Lyapunov's direct (second) method and constructing a complete Lyapunov function, earlier results are generalized.