OSCILLATION AND EXISTENCE OF POSITIVESOLUTIONS OF DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONSWITH POSITIVE, NEGATIVE COEFFICIENTS

This paper is concerned with the existence of eventually positive solutions and oscillatory solutions of first-order neutral differential equation with positive and negative coefficients. The "sharp" conditions of oscillation for the equation have been obtained, i.e., the conditions are sufficient and necessary when all of the coefficients are constants. These conditions are distinguished from the previous criteria in the literatures, and also weaker than those existing results.