Integral condition for oscillation of half-linear differential equations with damping (Q1996394)

The authors study the second-order nonlinear differential equation \[ (\Phi_p(x'))'+a(t)\Phi_p(x')+b(t)\Phi_p(x)=0, \tag{1} \] where \(a\) and \(b\) are locally integrable functions on \([0,\infty)\) and \(\Phi_p\) is a real-valued function defined by \[ \Phi_p(z)=\left\{ \begin{array}{cl} \displaystyle |z|^{p-2}z &\;\text{if}\; z\neq 0,\\ 0 &\;\text{if}\; z=0 \end{array} \right. \] with a real number \(p>1\). There are given sufficient conditions ensuring that all nontrivial solutions of equation (1) are oscillatory. The proof is based on phase plane analysis with the generalized Prüfer transformation, and a parametric curve by the coefficients is focused, which is a generalization of the curve given by the characteristic equation of the second-order linear differential equation with constant coefficients. The obtained results generalize some known results in the literature.