Types and criteria of nonoscillatory solutions for some second order NFDE (Q1106392)

The author considers functional differential equations of the form \[ | r(t)[x(t)-cx(t-\tau)]')'+\int^{b}_{a}p(t,\xi)\times [g(t,\xi)]d\sigma (\quad \xi)=0 \] where \(\tau >0\), \(0\leq c<1\), \(0\leq g(t,\xi)\leq t\), \(p(t,\xi)>0\), and \(r(t)>0\). For both \(\int^{+\infty}ds/r(s)=+\infty\) and \(\int^{+\infty}ds/r(s)<+\infty,\) the author shows that only three nonoscillatory types of solution are possible. Some necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of various types are given.