Oscillation of higher order delay differential equations (Q1917781)

The authors consider the odd-order delay differential equation (1) \(x^{(n)} (t) + \sum^m_{i = 1} p_i (t) x(t - \sigma_i) = 0\), where \(p_i (t) \in C ([T, \infty), \mathbb{R}_+)\) for some \(T \geq 0\) and \(\sigma_i \in (0, \infty)\) \((i = 1, 2, \dots, m)\). They have obtained a sufficient condition for oscillation of all solutions of (1). As the authors admit their criterion is not a generalization of the well-known results of Ladas and Stavroulakis but rather supplements these results for higher order equations \((n \geq 3)\).