Oscillation criteria for second-order nonlinear self-adjoint differential equations (Q937852)

The authors obtain some oscillation criteria for the nonlinear self-adjoint differential equation \[ (a(t)x')'+ b(t)g(x)= 0, \] where \(a\) and \(b\) are positive, continuous, and locally of bounded variation on some half-line, and \(g(x)\) is continuous on \(\mathbb{R}\) and satisfies \(xg(x)> 0\) for \(x\neq 0\), but it is not imposed that \(g\) is monotone, superlinear or sublinear. The authors present sufficient conditions for all nontrivial solutions to be oscillatory for the critical cases \[ \liminf_{|x|\to 0}\;{g(x)\over x}< {1\over 4}< \limsup_{|x|\to 0}\;{g(x)\over x}\text{ and }\liminf_{|x|\to\infty}\;{g(x)\over x}< {1\over 4}< \limsup_{|x|\to\infty}\;{g(x)\over x}. \] Three examples are given to illustrate the obtained results.