Oscillation of functional parabolic differential equations under the Robin boundary condition (Q5939133)

The authors investigate the functional parabolic equation \[ \partial u/\partial t= a(t)\Delta u+ a_1(t)\Delta u(x,\rho(t))- p(x,t)u- \int^b_a q(x, t,\zeta) f(u[x, g(t,\zeta)]) d\sigma(\zeta)+ h(x,t) \] under the Robin boundary condition \(\partial u/\partial n+ \beta(x)u(x, t)= 0\), \(x\in \partial\Omega\), where \(\Delta\) is the Laplacian in \(\mathbb{R}^n\), \(\Omega\) is a bounded domain in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) with a piecewise smooth boundary \(\partial\Omega\), \(n\) is the outward normal to \(\partial\Omega\). The main result is that every solution of the problem under consideration oscillates in some domain. The method of proof used here is based on solving the Robin eigenvalue problem for the elliptic equation \(\Delta\Phi+ \lambda\Phi= 0\) in \(\Omega\), \(\partial\Phi/\partial n+ \beta(x)\Phi= 0\) on \(\partial\Omega\).