Criteria for oscillatory behavior of solutions of fourth order half-linear differential equations of the form $$\left(\right|y^{\text{'}\text{'}}{|}^{\alpha }\mathrm{sgn}{y}^{\text{'}\text{'}}{)}^{\text{'}\text{'}}+q\left(t\right){\left|y\right|}^{\alpha }\mathrm{sgn}y=0,t\ge a>0,A$$ where $\alpha >0$ is a constant and $q\left(t\right)$ is positive continuous function on $[a,\infty )$, are given in terms of an increasing continuously differentiable function $\omega \left(t\right)$ from $[a,\infty )$ to $(0,\infty )$ which satisfies ${\int }_a^{\infty }1/\left(t\omega \left(t\right)\right)dt<\infty$.

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 34C10, 34C15.Some new criteria for the oscillation of all solutions of second order differential equations of the form (d/dt)(r(t)ψ(x)|dx/dt|α−2(dx/dt))+ p(t)φ(|x|α−2x,r(t) ψ(x)|dx/dt|α−2(dx/dt))+q(t)|x|α−2 x=0, and the more general equation (d/dt)(r(t)ψ(x)|dx/dt|α−2(dx/dt))+p(t)φ(g(x),r(t) ψ(x)|dx/dt|α−2 (dx/dt))+q(t)g(x)=0, are established. our results generalize and extend some known oscillation criterain in the literature.

Recently there has been an increasing interest in studying $p\left(t\right)$-Laplacian equations, an example of which is given in the following form $$\left(\right|u^{\text{'}}{\left(t\right)|}^{p\left(t\right)-2}{u}^{\text{'}}{\left(t\right))}^{\text{'}}+c\left(t\right){\left|u\left(t\right)\right|}^{q\left(t\right)-2}u\left(t\right)=0,t>0.$$ In particular, the first study of sufficient conditions for oscillatory solution of $p\left(t\right)$-Laplacian equations was made by Zhang (2007), but to our knowledge, there has not been a paper which gives the oscillatory conditions by utilizing Riccati inequality. Therefore, we establish sufficient conditions for oscillatory solution of nonlinear differential equations with...

Our aim in this paper is to present sufficient conditions for the oscillation of the second order neutral differential equation (x(t)-px(t-))"+q(t)x((t))=0.

Our aim in this paper is to present criteria for oscillation of the nonlinear differential equation $$u^{\text{'}\text{'}}\left(t\right)+p\left(t\right)f\left(u\left(g\left(t\right)\right)\right)=0.$$ The obtained oscillatory criteria improve existing ones.

Some results concerning oscillation of second order self-adjoint matrix differential equations are obtained. These may be regarded as a generalization of results for the corresponding scalar equations.