Oscillation criteria for third order nonlinear delay differential equations with damping

Abstract

This note is concerned with the oscillation of third order nonlinear delay differential equations of the form $\left( r_{2}(t)\left( r_{1}(t)y^{\prime}(t)\right)^{\prime}\right)^{\prime}+p(t)y^{\prime}(t)+q(t)f(y(g(t)))=0.\tag{\(\ast\)}$ $(*)$ In the papers [A.Tiryaki, M.F. Aktas, Oscillation criteria of a certain class of third order nonlinear delay differential equations with damping, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 325 (2007), 54-68] and [M.F. Aktas, A. Tiryaki, A. Zafer, Oscillation criteria for third order nonlinear-functional differential equations, Applied Math. Letters 23 (2010), 756-762], the authors established some sufficient conditions which insure that any solution of equation $(*)$ oscillates or converges to zero, provided that the second order equation $\left( r_{2}(t)z^{\prime }(t)\right)^{\prime}+\left(p(t)/r_{1}(t)\right) z(t)=0\tag{\(\ast\ast\)}$ $(**)$ is nonoscillatory. Here, we shall improve and unify the results given in the above mentioned papers and present some new sufficient conditions which insure that any solution of equation $(*)$ oscillates if equation $(**)$ is nonoscillatory. We also establish results for the oscillation of equation $(*)$ when equation $(**)$ is oscillatory.