Sufficient conditions for the oscillation of forced super-linear second order differential equations with oscillatory potential

Nasr, A.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-98-04354-8

Sufficient conditions for the oscillation of forced super-linear second order differential equations with oscillatory potential
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 126 (1998), 123-125 Request permission

Abstract:

In the case of oscillatory potentials, we give sufficient conditions for the oscillation of the forced super-linear equation \[ x''(t)+a(t)|x(t)|^{\nu }\operatorname {sgn} x(t)=g(t).\] This answers a question raised by J. S. W. Wong.

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