Second-order oscillation of forced functional differential equations with oscillatory potentials (Q2475910)

New oscillation criteria are established for second-order differential equations containing both delay and advanced arguments of the form, \[ (k(t)x'(t))'+p(t)|x(\tau(t))|^{\alpha-1}x(\tau(t))+q(t)|x(\sigma(t))|^{\beta-1}x(\sigma(t))=e(t),\quad t\geq 0 \] where \(\alpha\geq 1\) and \(\beta\geq 1\); \(k, p, q, e,\tau,\sigma\) are continuous real-valued functions; \(k(t) > 0\) is nondecreasing; \(\tau\) and \(\sigma\) are nondecreasing, \(\tau(t)\leq t\), \(\sigma(t)\geq t\), and \(\lim_{t\to\infty}\tau(t) =\infty\).The potentials \(p, q\), and \(e\) are allowed to change sign and the information on the whole half-line is not required as opposed to the usual case in most articles. Among others, as an application of the results we are able to deduce that every solution of \[ x''(t)+m_1\sin tx\left(t-\frac{\pi}{12}\right)+m_2\cos tx\left(t+\frac{\pi}{6}\right)=\cos 2t,\quad m_1,m_2\geq 0 \] is oscillatory provided that either \(m_1\) or \(m_2\) is sufficiently large.