Oscillation and nonoscillation in neutral delay dynamic equations with positive and negative coefficients (Q2912439)

A first-order neutral dynamic equation of the form NEWLINE\[NEWLINE[x(t) - A(t) x(\alpha(t))]^\Delta + B(t) x(\beta(t)) - C(t) x(\gamma(t)) = 0, \quad t \in [t_0, \infty)_{\mathbb{T}},NEWLINE\]NEWLINE is studied. The rd-continuous strictly increasing unbounded functions \(\alpha, \beta\) and \(\gamma\) are such that \(\alpha(t) \leq t\) and \(\beta \leq \gamma(t) \leq t\) holds for sufficiently large \(t\). As a consequence of several technical lemmas, the authors establish that the above delay dynamic equation is oscillatory. Under certain conditions, the existence of a non-oscillatory solution is also established. The results are illustrated for the time scales \(\mathbb{T} = \mathbb{R}\) and \(\mathbb{T} = \mathbb{Z}\).