OSCILLATION FOR SYSTEMS OF PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS WITH FUNCTIONAL ARGUMENTS (Q4934764)

Sufficient conditions for the oscillation of the following system of parabolic differential equations with functional argument are obtained \[ {\partial\over\partial t}\left( p(t){\partial\over\partial t} u_i(x,t)\right) = a_i(t)\Delta u_i(x,t)+ \sum_{k=1}^s a_{ik}(t)\Delta u_i(x,\rho_k(t)) \] \[ -q_i(x,t)u_i(x,t)- \sum_{j=1}^m\sum_{h=1}^l q_{ijh}(x,t) u_j(x,\sigma_h(t)), \] \[ (x,t)\in\Omega\times[0,\infty),\quad i=1,2,\dots,m, \] where \(\Omega\) is a bounded domain in \(\mathbb{R}^n\), and \(\Delta\) is the Laplace operator with respect to the spatial variables. The results are illustrated with examples.