Oscillation criteria for second order forced ordinary differential equations with mixed nonlinearities (Q2371869)

The authors introduce general oscillation criteria for the second order ordinary differential equation \[ \big(p(t)\,x'\big)'+q(t)\,x+\sum_{i=1}^nq_i(t)\,| x| ^{\alpha_1}\,\mathrm{sgn}\,x=e(t), \] where \(p,q,q_i,e\in C[0,\infty)\), \(p(t)>0\) and differentiable (but this assumption on the existence of \(p'(t)\) is apparently not needed), \(\alpha_1>\dots>\alpha_m>1>\alpha_{m+1}>\dots>\alpha_n\), and no restriction is invoked on the forcing term \(e(t)\). Note that the equation contains both sublinear and superlinear terms due to the assumptions on the exponents \(\alpha_i\). The main results (Theorems~1--3) are derived via the Riccati technique and generalize several results in the literature.