In the paper, conditions are obtained, in terms of coefficient functions, which are necessary as well as sufficient for non-oscillation/oscillation of all solutions of self-adjoint linear homogeneous equations of the form $$\Delta \left(p_{n-1}\Delta y_{n-1}\right)+q{y}_n=0,n\ge 1,$$ where $q$ is a constant. Sufficient conditions, in terms of coefficient functions, are obtained for non-oscillation of all solutions of nonlinear non-homogeneous equations of the type $$\Delta \left(p_{n-1}\Delta y_{n-1}\right)+q_{n}g\left(y_n\right)=f_{n-1},n\ge 1,$$ where, unlike earlier works, $f_n\ge 0$ or $\le 0$ (but $\neg \equiv 0)$ for large $n$. Further, these results are used to obtain...

The paper discusses basics of calculus of backward fractional differences and sums. We state their definitions, basic properties and consider a special two-term linear fractional difference equation. We construct a family of functions to obtain its solution.