Oscillation of second-order dynamic equations (Q2429749)

Summary: We consider the second-order nonlinear dynamic equations \[ (p(t)y^{\Delta }(t))^{\Delta } + q(t)f(y(\tau (t))) = 0 \quad\text{and}\quad (p(t)y^{\Delta }(t))^{\Delta } + q(t)f(y^{\sigma } (t)) = 0 \] on an isolated time scale \(\mathbb T\). Our first goal is to establish a relationship between the oscillatory behaviour of these equations. Here, we assume that \(\tau : \mathbb T \to \mathbb T\). We also give two results about the behaviour of the linear form of the latter equation on a general time scale that is unbounded above. We use the Riccati transformation technique to obtain our results.