Existence of periodic and subharmonic solutions for second-order superlinear difference equations

AbstractBy critical point theory, a new approach is provided to study the existence and multiplicity results of periodic and subharmonic solutions for difference equations. For secord-order difference equations $$\Delta ^2 x_{n - 1} + f(n, x_n ) = 0,$$ some new results are obtained for the above problems when f(t, z) has superlinear growth at zero and at infinity in z.

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