Sufficient conditions for oscillation and nonoscillation of neutral equations. (English) Zbl 0616.34063

Grove, E. A.; Kulenović, M. R. S.; Ladas, G.

J. Differ. Equations 68, 373-382 (1987).

The authors obtain sufficient conditions for all solutions of the neutral delay equation \[ (1)\quad \frac{d}{dt}[x(t)-P(t)x(t-\tau)]+Q(t)x(t- \sigma)=0,\quad 0\leq P(t)\leq 1, \] to oscillate. Theorem. If \(0<K_ 1\leq q(t)\leq K_ 2\) and if \[ \inf_{\mu >0,t\geq \tau}[P(t-\tau)Q(t)Q^{- 1}(t-\sigma)e^{\mu \sigma}+\mu^{-1}Q(t)e^{\mu \sigma}]>1, \] then every solution of (1) oscillates. This result is related to the known fact that all solutions of the equation \((d/dt)[x(t)-px(t-\tau)]+qx(t- \sigma)=0\) with constant coefficients oscillate if and only if the corresponding characteristic equation \(\lambda -p\lambda e^{-\lambda \tau}+qe^{-\lambda \sigma}=0\) has no real root.

Reviewer: U.Elias

MSC:

34K99	Functional-differential equations (including equations with delayed, advanced or state-dependent argument)
34C10	Oscillation theory, zeros, disconjugacy and comparison theory for ordinary differential equations

Keywords:

neutral delay equation

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