TY - JOUR ID - ElMatary2023 LB - ElMatary2023 AU - El-Matary, Bassant M. AU - El-Morshedy, Hassan A. AU - Benekas, Vasileios AU - Stavroulakis, Ioannis P. TI - Oscillation conditions for difference equations with several variable delays ST - Oscillation conditions for difference equations with several variable delays JO - Opuscula Math. JA - Opuscula Math. JF - Opuscula Mathematica PY - 2023 VL - 43 IS - 6 SP - 789 EP - 801 DO - https://doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2023.43.6.789 UR - https://doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2023.43.6.789 AB - A technique is developed to establish a new oscillation criterion for a first-order linear difference equation with several delays and non-negative coefficients. Our result improves recent oscillation criteria and covers the cases of monotone and non-monotone delays. Moreover, the paper is concluded with an illustrative example to show the applicability and strength of our result. KW - oscillation KW - difference equations KW - non-monotone delays KW - first order SN - 1232-9274 ER -