Oscillation of hyperbolic functional differential equations with deviating arguments (Q1801759)

We discuss the oscillation properties of solutions for a class of hyperbolic functional differential equations \[ u_{tt}=a(t)\Delta u+ \sum_{j=1}^ m a_ j(t)\Delta u(t-\tau_ j(t),x)-\sum_{k=1}^ n b_ k(t,x) f_ k (u(t-\sigma_ k(t),x)), \quad (t,x)\in\mathbb{R}_ +\times\Omega=G \] with the boundary condition \(\partial u/\partial n+\delta(t,x)u=0\), \((t,x)\in\mathbb{R}_ +\times\partial \Omega\) or \(u(t,x)=0\), \((t,x)\in\mathbb{R}_ +\times \partial \Omega\), where \(\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^ n\) is a bounded domain with boundary \(\partial\Omega\) sufficiently smooth and \(n\) is a unit exterior normal vector of \(\partial\Omega\), and \(\delta(t,x)\in C(\mathbb{R}_ +\times \partial\Omega,\mathbb{R}_ +)\).