On the oscillation of neutral differential-difference equations with ``integrally small'' coefficients (Q2748232)

Consider the \(n\)th-order neutral differential equation NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\frac{d^{n}}{dt^{n}}[x(t)-P(t)x(t-\tau)]+Q(t)x(t-\sigma)-R(t)x(t-r)=0,\quad t\geq t_{0},\tag{*}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(n\geq 1\) is an odd integer. The aim of this paper is to survey recent results for the oscillation of (*) in the cases: \(n\geq 1\) with \(R(t)\equiv 0\) and \(n=1\) with \(R(t)\geq 0\). At the end of the paper, four open problems are posed.