Oscillation and nonoscillation theorems for a class of fourth order quasilinear functional differential equations (Q1890207)

Here, the fourth-order functional-differential equation \[ (|y''(t)|^\alpha \text{sign\,}y''(t))''+ q(t)|y(g(t))|^\beta \text{sign\,}y(g(t))= 0\tag{1} \] is considered, where \(\alpha,\beta\in (0,+\infty)\); \(q\in C(\mathbb{R}_+;(0,+\infty))\), \(g\in C^1(\mathbb{R}_+; (0,+\infty))\), \(g'(t)> 0\) for \(t\geq 0\), and \(\lim_{t\to+\infty}\,g(t)= +\infty\). Oscillation and nonoscillation criteria are established for (1).