RICCATI TRANSFORMATION AND SUBLINEAR OSCILLATION FOR SECOND ORDER NEUTRAL DELAY DYNAMIC EQUATIONS

This work is concerned with oscillation of the second order sublinear neutral delay dynamic equations of the form $$\(r(t)\;\((y(t)+p(t)y(a(t)))^{\Delta}\)^{\gamma}\)^{\Delta}+q(t)y^{\gamma}({\beta}(t))=0$$ on a time scale $\mathcal{T}$ by means of Riccati transformation technique, under the assumptions $\int^{\infty}_{t_0}\(\frac{1}{r(t)}\)^{\frac{1}{\gamma}}$ ${\Delta}t={\infty}$ and $\int^{\infty}_{t_0}\(\frac{1}{r(t)}\)^{\frac{1}{\gamma}}$ ${\Delta}t$ < ${\infty}$, where 0 < ${\gamma}{\leq}1$ is a quotient of odd positive integers.