Oscillation of a class of functional parabolic differential equations (Q1586293)

The authors of this interesting paper investigate a class of nonlinear parabolic equations with distributed deviating arguments, \[ u_t= a(t)\Delta u+ \sum^n_{i=1} a_i(t)\Delta u(x,\tau_i(t))- p(x,t)u- \int^b_a q(x,t,\xi) f(u[x, g(t,\xi)]) d\sigma(\xi)+ h(x, t), \] \((x,t)\in \Omega\times \mathbb{R}_+\equiv G\), the integral is a Stieltjes integral. Given one of the boundary conditions \(u= \varphi(x,t)\), \(\partial u/\partial n= \psi(x,t)\), \(\partial u/\partial n+\nu(x,t)u= 0\) on \(\partial\Omega\times \mathbb{R}_+\). Here \(\Delta\) is the Laplacian operator in \(\mathbb{R}^n\), \(\Omega\) is a bounded domain in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) with piecewise smooth boundary \(\partial\Omega\). The functions \(a(t)\), \(a_i(t)\), \(\tau_i(t)\), \(p\), \(q\), \(g\), \(f\) are continuous with respect to their arguments. Interesting oscillatory criteria for the considered problem under each one of the three boundary conditions are established.