Euler type linear and half-linear differential equations and their non-oscillation in the critical oscillation case

Abstract This paper is devoted to the analysis of the oscillatory behavior of Euler type linear and half-linear differential equations. We focus on the so-called conditional oscillation, where there exists a borderline between oscillatory and non-oscillatory equations. The most complicated problem involved in the theory of conditionally oscillatory equations is to decide whether the equations from the given class are oscillatory or non-oscillatory in the threshold case. In this paper, we answer this question via a combination of the Riccati and Prüfer technique. Note that the obtained non-oscillation of the studied equations is important in solving boundary value problems on non-compact intervals and that the obtained results are new even in the linear case.