Periodic solutions of nonlinear second-order difference equations

Periodic Solutions of Second Order Nonlinear Functional Difference Equations

The development of the study of periodic solution of functional difference equations is relatively rapid. There has been many approaches to study periodic solutions of difference equations, such as critical point theory, fixed point theorems in Banach spaces or in cones of Banach spaces, coincidence degree theory, KaplanYorke method, and so on, one may see [3-7,11,13-15] and the references ther...

Periodic solutions for nonlinear second-order difference equations

We establish conditions for the existence of periodic solutions of nonlinear, second-order difference equations of the form y(t + 2) + by(t + 1) + cy(t) = f (y(t)), where c = 0 and f :R→ R is continuous. In our main result we assume that f exhibits sublinear growth and that there is a constant β > 0 such that u f (u) > 0 whenever |u| ≥ β. For such an equation we prove that ifN is an odd integer...

Nontrivial Periodic Solutions for Nonlinear Second-Order Difference Equations

Existence of Periodic Solutions for Higher-order Nonlinear Difference Equations

In this article, we study a higher-order nonlinear difference equation. By using critical point theory, we establish sufficient conditions for the existence of periodic solutions.

Positive Periodic Solutions of Nonlinear First-Order Functional Difference Equations

Ruyun Ma, Tianlan Chen, and Yanqiong Lu Department of Mathematics, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China Correspondence should be addressed to Ruyun Ma, ruyun [email protected] Received 12 October 2010; Accepted 19 December 2010 Academic Editor: Marko Robnik Copyright q 2010 Ruyun Ma et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which pe...