On second order sublinear oscillation

The basic purpose of this paper is to present a new oscillation criterion for second order sublinear ordinary differential equations of the formx(t) +a(t)f[x(t)] = 0,t t₀>0, wherea is a continuous function on [t₀, ) without any restriction on its sign andf is a continuous function on the real line, which is continuously differentiable, except possibly at 0, and satisfiesyf(y)>0 andf(y)>0 fory 0, and. The results obtained include the average behavior of the integral of the coefficienta.