A nonoscillation theorem for superlinear Emden-Fowler equations with near-critical coefficients (Q2373812)

The authors deal with the oscillatory behavior of solutions of the superlinear Emden-Fowler differential equation \[ y''(x)+a(x)| y(x)|^{\gamma-1}y(x)=0,\quad x>0,\tag{1} \] where \(\gamma>1\) and \(a(x)\) is a positive continuous function on \((0,\infty)\). One of the known results says that if \(a(x)= x^{-(\gamma+3)/2}\log^{-\sigma}(x)\), where \(\sigma>0\), then all solutions of (1) are nonoscillatory. In this paper, this result is extended to include a class of coefficients in which the above condition with \(\log(x)\) can be replaced by \(\log\log(x)\), or \(\log\log\log(x)\) and so on.