On oscillation of equations with distributed delay (Q5945537)

For the scalar delay differential equation with a distributed delay \[ \dot {x}(t)+\int_{-\infty}^{t}x(s) d_sR(t, s) =f(t),\quad t>t_0, \] a connection between the properties nonoscillation, positiveness of the fundamental function and existence of a nonnegative solution to a certain nonlinear integral inequality is established. This enables one to obtain comparison theorems and explicit nonoscillation and oscillation conditions being generalizations of some known results for delay equations and integro-differential equations. The authors obtain oscillation results for equations with an infinite number of delays.