%0 Journal Article %T Picone-type inequality and Sturmian comparison theorems for quasilinear elliptic operators with p(x)-Laplacians %A Norio Yoshida %J Electronic Journal of Differential Equations %D 2012 %I Texas State University %X A Picone-type inequality for quasilinear elliptic operators with mixed nonlinearities and with p(x)-Laplacian is established, and Sturmian comparison theorems are derived on the basis of the Picone-type inequality. Generalizations to more general quasilinear elliptic operators with p(x)-Laplacians and specializations to quasilinear ordinary differential operators with p(t)-Laplacians are shown. %K p(x)-Laplacian %K Picone-type inequality %K quasilinear elliptic operators %K Sturmian comparison theorem %K mixed nonlinearities %U http://ejde.math.txstate.edu/Volumes/2012/01/abstr.html