Oscillation properties for systems of hyperbolic differential equations of neutral type (Q1583942)

The author obtains several groups of sufficient conditions for the oscillation of the system of partial functional differential equations \[ \begin{aligned} \frac{\partial^2}{\partial t} \Biggl[p(t)u_i(x,t)+\sum_{r=1}^d \lambda_r (t)u_i(x,t-\tau_r)\Biggr]&= a_i(t)\Delta u_i(x,t)\\ +\sum_{j=1}^m \sum_{k=1}^sa_{ijk}\Delta u_j(x,\rho_k(t))-q_i(x,t)u_i(x,t) &- \sum_{j=1}^m\sum_{h=1}^l q_{ijh}(x,t)u_j(x,\sigma_h(x,t)),\\ (x,t)\in\Omega\times[0,+\infty)&\equiv G,\;i=1,2,\cdots,m \end{aligned}\tag{1} \] with the boundary condition \[ \frac{\partial u_i(x,t)}{\partial n}+g_i(x,t)u_i(x,t)=0,\quad (x,t)\in \partial \Omega\times [0,+\infty), \tag{2} \] or \[ u_i(x,t)=0,\quad (x,t)\in \partial \Omega\times [0,+\infty), \tag{3} \] where \(\Delta\) is the Laplacian operator; \(n\) is the unit exterior normal vector to \(\partial \Omega\); \(\partial \Omega\) is piecewise smooth. The technique of the proof and the sufficient conditions for oscillation are similar to that in [the author and \textit{B. T. Cui}, Bull. Inst. Math., Acad. Sin. 28, No. 3, 189-200 (2000; Zbl 0964.35164), cf. the preceding review].