Oscillation Criteria for a Class of Perturbed Schrödinger Equations

Abstract

We are concerned with the oscillatory behavior of the second order elliptic equation1where Δ is the Laplace operator inn-dimensional Euclidean spaceRn,Eis an exterior domain inRn, andc:E × R → Randf:E → Rare continuous functions.A functionv : E − Ris called oscillatory inEifv(x) has arbitrarily large zeros, that is, the set {x∈E:v(x) = 0} is unbounded. For brevity, we say that equation (1) is oscillatory inEif every solutionu∈C2(E) of (1) is oscillatory inE.