Sufficient conditions are presented for all bounded solutions of the linear system of delay differential equations $${(-1)}^{m+1}\frac{d^m{y}_i\left(t\right)}{d{t}^m}+\sum _{j=1}^n{q}_{ij}{y}_j(t-h_{jj})=0,m\ge 1,i=1,2,...,n,$$ to be oscillatory, where $q_{ij}\epsilon (-\infty ,\infty )$, $h_{jj}\in (0,\infty )$, $i,j=1,2,...,n$. Also, we study the oscillatory behavior of all bounded solutions of the linear system of neutral differential equations $${(-1)}^{m+1}\frac{d^m}{d{t}^m}(y_i\left(t\right)+c{y}_i(t-g))+\sum _{j=1}^n{q}_{ij}{y}_j(t-h)=0,$$ where $c$, $g$ and $h$ are real constants and $i=1,2,...,n$.

The paper is concerned with oscillation properties of $n$-th order neutral differential equations of the form $${[x\left(t\right)+cx\left(\tau \left(t\right)\right)]}^{\left(n\right)}+q\left(t\right)f\left(x\left(\sigma \right(t\left)\right)\right)=0,t\ge t_0>0,$$ where $c$ is a real number with $\left|c\right|\ne 1$, $q\in C([t_0,\infty ),ℝ)$, $f\in C(ℝ,ℝ)$, $\tau ,\sigma \in C([t_0,\infty ),{ℝ}_{+})$ with $\tau \left(t\right)<t$ and ${lim}_{t\to \infty }\tau \left(t\right)={lim}_{t\to \infty }\sigma \left(t\right)=\infty$. Sufficient conditions are established for the existence of positive solutions and for oscillation of bounded solutions of the above equation. Combination of these conditions provides necessary and sufficient conditions for oscillation of bounded solutions of the equation. Furthermore, the results are generalized to equations...

We consider the second order self-adjoint differential equation (1) (r(t)y’(t))’ + p(t)y(t) = 0 on an interval I, where r, p are continuous functions and r is positive on I. The aim of this paper is to show one possibility to write equation (1) in the same form but with positive coefficients, say r₁, p₁ and to derive a sufficient condition for equation (1) to be oscillatory in the case p is nonnegative and ${\int }^{\infty }[1/r\left(t\right)]dt$ converges.

In this paper we consider the equation $$y^{\text{'}\text{'}\text{'}}+q\left(t\right){y^{\text{'}}}^{\alpha }+p\left(t\right)h\left(y\right)=0,$$ where $p,q$ are real valued continuous functions on $[0,\infty )$ such that $q\left(t\right)\ge 0$, $p\left(t\right)\ge 0$ and $h\left(y\right)$ is continuous in $(-\infty ,\infty )$ such that $h\left(y\right)y>0$ for $y\ne 0$. We obtain sufficient conditions for solutions of the considered equation to be nonoscillatory. Furthermore, the asymptotic behaviour of these nonoscillatory solutions is studied.

In this paper, the oscillation criteria for solutions of the neutral delay differential equation (NDDE) $${\left(y\left(t\right)-p\left(t\right)y\left(t-\tau \right)\right)}^{\left(n\right)}+\alpha Q\left(t\right)G\left(y\left(t-\sigma \right)\right)=f\left(t\right)$$ has been studied where $p\left(t\right)=1$ or $p\left(t\right)\le 0$, $\alpha =\pm 1$, $Q\in C\left([0,\infty ),R^{+}\right)$, $f\in C\left(\right[0,\infty ),R)$, $G\in C(R,R)$. This work improves and generalizes some recent results and answer some questions that are raised in [1].