INTERVAL CRITERIA FOR FORCED OSCILLATION OF DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS WITH p-LAPLACIAN AND NONLINEARITIES GIVEN BY RIEMANN-STIELTJES INTEGRALS

We consider forced second order differential equation with p-Laplacian and nonlinearities given by a Riemann-Stieltjes integrals in the form of ( p(t)φγ ( x′(t) ))′ + q0 (t)φγ (x(t)) + ∫ b 0 q (t, s)φα(s) (x(t)) dζ (s) = e(t), where φα (u) := |u| sgnu, γ, b ∈ (0,∞) , α ∈ C [0, b) is strictly increasing such that 0 ≤ α (0) < γ < α (b−), p, q0, e ∈ C ([t0,∞),R) with p (t) > 0 on [t0,∞), q ∈ C ([0,∞)× [0, b)), and ζ : [0, b) → R is nondecreasing. Interval oscillation criteria of the El-Sayed type and the Kong type are obtained. These criteria are further extended to equations with deviating arguments. As special cases, our work generalizes, unifies, and improves many existing results in the literature.