Sufficient conditions are obtained for the third order nonlinear delay difference equation of the form $$\Delta \left(a_n\left(\Delta \left(b_n{\left(\Delta y_n\right)}^{\alpha }\right)\right)\right)+q_{n}f\left(y_{\sigma \left(n\right)}\right)=0$$ to have property $\left(\mathrm{A}\right)$ or to be oscillatory. These conditions improve and complement many known results reported in the literature. Examples are provided to illustrate the importance of the main results.

In this work, oscillatory behaviour of solutions of a class of fourth-order neutral functional difference equations of the form $${\Delta }^2\left(r\left(n\right){\Delta }^2(y\left(n\right)+p\left(n\right)y(n-m))\right)+q\left(n\right)G\left(y(n-k)\right)=0$$ is studied under the assumption $$\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }\frac{n}{r\left(n\right)}<\infty .$$ New oscillation criteria have been established which generalize some of the existing results in the literature.

In the paper we consider the difference equation of neutral type $${\Delta }^3[x\left(n\right)-p\left(n\right)x\left(\sigma \left(n\right)\right)]+q\left(n\right)f\left(x\left(\tau \left(n\right)\right)\right)=0,n\in \mathbb{N}\left(n_0\right),$$ where $p,q:\mathbb{N}\left(n_0\right)\to {ℝ}_{+}$; $\sigma ,\tau :\mathbb{N}\to \mathbb{Z}$, $\sigma$ is strictly increasing and $\underset{n\to \infty }{lim}\sigma \left(n\right)=\infty ;$ $\tau$ is nondecreasing and $\underset{n\to \infty }{lim}\tau \left(n\right)=\infty$, $f:ℝ\to ℝ$, $xf\left(x\right)>0$. We examine the following two cases: $$0<p\left(n\right)\le {\lambda }^{*}<1,\sigma \left(n\right)=n-k,\tau \left(n\right)=n-l,$$ and $$1<{\lambda }_{*}\le p\left(n\right),\sigma \left(n\right)=n+k,\tau \left(n\right)=n+l,$$ where $k$, $l$ are positive integers. We obtain sufficient conditions under which all nonoscillatory solutions of the above equation tend to zero as $n\to \infty$ with a weaker assumption on $q$ than the usual assumption $\sum _{i=n_0}^{\infty }q\left(i\right)=\infty$ that is used in literature.

We study the oscillatory behavior of the second-order quasi-linear retarded difference equation $$\Delta \left(p\left(n\right){\left(\Delta y\left(n\right)\right)}^{\alpha }\right)+\eta \left(n\right)y^{\beta }(n-k)=0$$ under the condition ${\sum }_{n=n_0}^{\infty }{p}^{-\frac{1}{\alpha }}\left(n\right)<\infty$ (i.e., the noncanonical form). Unlike most existing results, the oscillatory behavior of this equation is attained by transforming it into an equation in the canonical form. Examples are provided to show the importance of our main results.

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 $i=1,2,...,n$.

In this note we consider the third order linear difference equations of neutral type $${\Delta }^3[x\left(n\right)-p\left(n\right)x\left(\sigma \left(n\right)\right)]+\delta q\left(n\right)x\left(\tau \left(n\right)\right)=0,n\in N\left(n_0\right),\left(\mathrm{E}\right)$$ where $\delta =\pm 1$, $p,qN\left(n_0\right)\to {ℝ}_{+};$ $\sigma ,\tau N\left(n_0\right)\to \mathbb{N}$, ${lim}_{n\to \infty }\sigma \left(n\right)=\underset{n\to \infty }{lim}\tau \left(n\right)=\infty .$ We examine the following two cases: $$\begin{array}{ccc}\hfill \{0<p(n)& \le 1,\sigma \left(n\right)=n+k,\tau \left(n\right)=n+l\},\{p\left(n\right)\hfill & \hfill >1,\sigma \left(n\right)=n-k,\tau \left(n\right)=n-l\},\end{array}$$ where $k$, $l$ are positive integers and we obtain sufficient conditions under which all solutions of the above equations are oscillatory.