Nonoscillation of a class of neutral differential equations. (Q1416273)

This paper deals with \(n\)th-order neutral differential equations of the form \[ (x(t)-x(t-\tau))^{(n)}+p(t)x(t-\sigma)=0, \] where \(n\) is an odd number, \(\tau>0, \sigma\in \mathbb{R}\), \(p\in C([0, \infty), [0, \infty))\). The authors establish a complete classification of nonoscillatory solutions of the equation and find conditions for each type of nonoscillatory solutions to exist. Several interesting examples are also included to show the versatility of the obtained results.