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Unbounded oscillation of fourth order functional differential equations

  • Arun Kumar Tripathy EMAIL logo and Rashmi Rekha Mohanta
From the journal Mathematica Slovaca

Abstract

In this paper, sufficient conditions for oscillation of unbounded solutions of a class of fourth order neutral delay differential equations of the form

(r(t)(y(t)+p(t)y(tτ)))+q(t)G(y(tα))h(t)H(y(tσ))=0

are discussed under the assumption

0tr(t)dt=
MSC 2010: Primary 34C10; 34C15
  1. (Communicated by Michal Fečkan)

Acknowledgement

The authors are thankful to the referee for his/her valuable comments and suggestions about this work for completion.

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Received: 2019-06-08
Accepted: 2020-03-14
Published Online: 2020-09-27
Published in Print: 2020-10-27

© 2020 Mathematical Institute Slovak Academy of Sciences

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