Oscillation criteria are obtained for nonlinear homogeneous third order differential equations of the form $y^{\text{'}\text{'}\text{'}}+q\left(t\right)y^{\text{'}}+p\left(t\right)y^{\alpha }=0$ and y”’ + q(t)y’ + p(t)f(y) = 0, where p and q are real-valued continuous functions on [a,∞), f is a real-valued continuous function on (-∞, ∞) and α > 0 is a quotient of odd integers. Sign restrictions are imposed on p(t) and q(t). These results generalize some of the results obtained earlier in this direction.

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.

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.

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.

In this work, necessary and sufficient conditions for the oscillation of solutions of 2-dimensional linear neutral delay difference systems of the form $$\Delta \left[\begin{array}{c}x\left(n\right)+p\left(n\right)x(n-m)\\ y\left(n\right)+p\left(n\right)y(n-m)\end{array}\right]=\left[\begin{array}{cc}a\left(n\right)& b\left(n\right)\\ c\left(n\right)& d\left(n\right)\end{array}\right]\left[\begin{array}{c}x(n-\alpha )\\ y(n-\beta )\end{array}\right]$$ are established, where $m>0$, $\alpha \ge 0$, $\beta \ge 0$ are integers and $a\left(n\right)$, $b\left(n\right)$, $c\left(n\right)$, $d\left(n\right)$, $p\left(n\right)$ are sequences of real numbers.