Oscillatory phenomena in neutral delay differential equations (Q1307382)

Consider the general odd-order delay differential equation of the type \[ x^{(n)}(t)+\sum^m_{i=1} q_ix(t-\sigma_i)=0. \tag{*} \] The authors show that if \(n\) is odd and \[ \frac 1n \left(\sum^m_{i=1}\sigma^n_i q_i\right)^{1/n}>\frac 1e \] then every solution to (*) oscillates. Further, attempts are made to study a more general class of nonlinear neutral delay differential equations.