Sufficient conditions are obtained so that every solution of ${[y\left(t\right)-p\left(t\right)y(t-\tau )]}^{\left(n\right)}+Q\left(t\right)G\left(y(t-\sigma )\right)=f\left(t\right)$ where n ≥ 2, p,f ∈ C([0,∞),ℝ), Q ∈ C([0,∞),[0,∞)), G ∈ C(ℝ,ℝ), τ > 0 and σ ≥ 0, oscillates or tends to zero as $t\to \infty$. Various ranges of p(t) are considered. In order to accommodate sublinear cases, it is assumed that ${\int }_0^{\infty }Q\left(t\right)dt=\infty$. Through examples it is shown that if the condition on Q is weakened, then there are sublinear equations whose solutions tend to ±∞ as t → ∞.

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 offer criteria for property (B) and additional asymptotic behavior of solutions of the $n$-th order delay differential equations $${\left(r\left(t\right){\left[x^{(n-1)}\left(t\right)\right]}^{\gamma }\right)}^{\text{'}}=q\left(t\right)f\left(x\left(\tau \left(t\right)\right)\right).$$ Obtained results essentially use new comparison theorems, that permit to reduce the problem of the oscillation of the n-th order equation to the the oscillation of a set of certain the first order equations. So that established comparison principles essentially simplify the examination of studied equations. Both cases ${\int }^{\infty }{r}^{-1/\gamma }\left(t\right)t=\infty$ and ${\int }^{\infty }{r}^{-1/\gamma }\left(t\right)t<\infty$ are discussed.

The aim of our paper is to study oscillatory and asymptotic properties of solutions of nonlinear differential equations of the third order with deviating argument. In particular, we prove a comparison theorem for properties A and B as well as a comparison result on property A between nonlinear equations with and without deviating arguments. Our assumptions on nonlinearity f are related to its behavior only in a neighbourhood of zero and/or of infinity.

The objective of this paper is to study asymptotic properties of the third-order neutral differential equation $${\left[a\left(t\right){\left({\left[x\left(t\right)+p\left(t\right)x\left(\sigma \left(t\right)\right)\right]}^{\text{'}\text{'}}\right)}^{\gamma }\right]}^{\text{'}}+q\left(t\right)f\left(x\left[\tau \left(t\right)\right]\right)=0,t⩾t_0.\left(E\right)$$ . We will establish two kinds of sufficient conditions which ensure that either all nonoscillatory solutions of (E) converge to zero or all solutions of (E) are oscillatory. Some examples are considered to illustrate the main 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 known criteria....