Necessary and sufficient conditions for the oscillation of forced nonlinear second order differential equations with delayed argument (Q1364824)

Under the assumption that \(a(t)\) is nonnegative, there exists a bounded solution \(h(t)\) of \[ h''(t)= g(t)\quad\text{and}\quad\phi(t)\leq t,\;\lim_{t\to\infty} \phi(t)=\infty, \] necessary conditions for equation \(x''(t)+ a(t)|x(\phi(t))|^\nu\cdot \text{sgn }x(\phi(t))= g(t)\) to be oscillatory in the sublinear and the superlinear cases are established and when \(h(t)\) has special properties, these conditions are also sufficient.