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...

In this paper, necessary and sufficient conditions are obtained for every bounded solution of $${[y\left(t\right)-p\left(t\right)y(t-\tau )]}^{\left(n\right)}+Q\left(t\right)G\left(y(t-\sigma )\right)=f\left(t\right),t\ge 0,(*)$$ to oscillate or tend to zero as $t\to \infty$ for different ranges of $p\left(t\right)$. It is shown, under some stronger conditions, that every solution of $(*)$ oscillates or tends to zero as $t\to \infty$. Our results hold for linear, a class of superlinear and other nonlinear equations and answer a conjecture by Ladas and Sficas, Austral. Math. Soc. Ser. B 27 (1986), 502–511, and generalize some known results.

In this paper we consider the third-order nonlinear delay differential equation (*) $${\left(a\left(t\right){\left(x^{\text{'}\text{'}}\left(t\right)\right)}^{\gamma }\right)}^{\text{'}}+q\left(t\right)x^{\gamma }\left(\tau \left(t\right)\right)=0,t\ge t_0,$$ where $a\left(t\right)$, $q\left(t\right)$ are positive functions, $\gamma >0$ is a quotient of odd positive integers and the delay function $\tau \left(t\right)\le t$ satisfies ${lim}_{t\to infty}\tau \left(t\right)=infty$. We establish some sufficient conditions which ensure that (*) is oscillatory or the solutions converge to zero. Our results in the nondelay case extend and improve some known results and in the delay case the results can be applied to new classes of equations which are not covered by the...

We obtain sufficient conditions for every solution of the differential equation $${[y\left(t\right)-p\left(t\right)y\left(r\left(t\right)\right)]}^{\left(n\right)}+v\left(t\right)G\left(y\left(g\left(t\right)\right)\right)-u\left(t\right)H\left(y\left(h\left(t\right)\right)\right)=f\left(t\right)$$ to oscillate or to tend to zero as $t$ approaches infinity. In particular, we extend the results of Karpuz, Rath and Padhy (2008) to the case when $G$ has sub-linear growth at infinity. Our results also apply to the neutral equation $${[y\left(t\right)-p\left(t\right)y\left(r\left(t\right)\right)]}^{\left(n\right)}+q\left(t\right)G\left(y\left(g\left(t\right)\right)\right)=f\left(t\right)$$ when $q\left(t\right)$ has sign changes. Both bounded and unbounded solutions are consideted here; thus some known results are expanded.