Oscillations of higher order neutral differential equations (Q1898334)

Consider linear neutral differential equations of odd order in the form \[ [x(t)- P(t) x(t-\tau)]^{(n)}+ Q(t) x(t-\sigma(t))= 0,\tag{1} \] where \(n\geq 1\), \(\tau> 0\), \(P\), \(Q\), \(\sigma\in C([t_0, \infty),\mathbb{R}^+)\) and \(\lim_{t\to \infty} (t- \sigma(t))= \infty\). The authors prove new necessary and sufficient conditions for oscillation of all solutions of (1) by some comparison methods.