COMPARISON THEOREMS ON THE OSCILLATION OF A CLASS OF NEUTRAL DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS WITH CONTINUOUS VARIABLES

In this paper, we introduce an iterative method to study oscillatory properties of delay difference equations of the following form ${\nabla}_{\alpha}\;[x(t)\;-\;r(t)x(t\;-\;k)]\;+\;p(t)x(t\;-\;{\tau})\;-\;q(t)x(t\;-\;{\sigma})\;=\;0$, $t\;{\geq}\;t_0$, where $t_0\;{\in}\;\mathbb{R}$, t varies in the real interval ($t_0,\;{\infty}$), $\alpha$ > 0, $\kappa$, $\tau$, ${\sigma}\;{\geq}\;0$, $r\;{\in}\;C\;([t_0-{\alpha},\;{\infty}),\;\mathbb{R}^+$, p, $q\;{\in}\;C\;([t_0,\;{\infty}),\;\mathbb{R}^+)$ and ${\nabla}_{\alpha}x(t)\;=\;x(t)\;-\;x(t\;-\;{\alpha})$ for $t\;{\geq}\;t_0$.