On the oscillation of certain forced functional differential equations (Q1922945)

The author studies functional differential equations of the form \[ x^{(n)}(t)+ ap(t)x^{(n-1)}(t- ah)+ q(t)f(x(g(t)))= e(t),\tag{E,a} \] where \(n\) is odd, \(a=\pm 1\) and \(p\), \(q\), \(g\), \(e\), \(f\) are continuous functions, \(h>0\), \(g(t)\to\infty\) as \(t\to\infty\). In the paper, there are established some new sufficient conditions which guarantee that every solution of (E,a) is oscillatory provided that the function \(f\) is assumed to be locally of bounded variation.