A necessary and sufficient condition for oscillation of parabolic equations with several delays (Q1298521)

The authors find necessary and sufficient conditions for oscillation of the solutions of parabolic equations of the form \[ {\partial\over\partial t} u(x,t)= a(t)\Delta u(x,t)+ \sum^s_{k=1} a_k(t)\Delta u(x,t- \rho_k(t))- \sum^m_{j= 1} q_j(t) u(x,t-\sigma_j(t)),\;(x,t)\in \Omega\times [0,+\infty), \] \[ u(x,t)= 0,\quad (x,t)\in \partial\Omega\times [0,+\infty). \]