Oscillation criteria for fourth‐order differential equations with middle term

Oscillation criteria for self‐adjoint fourth‐order differential equations were established for various conditions on the coefficients r(x) > 0, q(x) and p(x). However, most of these results deal with the case when lim_{x → ∞}∫^x₁q(s) ds < +∞. In this note we give a new oscillation criterion in the case when this condition is not fulfilled, in particular when q(x)↗ + ∞ (even with exponential growth).