Oscillatory and nonoscillatory delay equations with piecewise constant argument

摘要

We introduce a new technique to analyze certain difference equations to obtain some new type and also "best possible" oscillation and nonoscillation criteria for the nonautonomous delay differential equation with piecewise constant argument of the form y'(t) + a(t)y(t) + b(t)y([t - 1]) = 0, where a(t) and b(t) are continuous functions on [-1, infinity), b(t) greater than or equal to 0, and [.] denotes the greatest integer function. (C) 2000 Academic Press. [References: 24]