Existence of solutions for some discrete boundary value problems with a parameter (Q1021646)

Consider the following discrete nonlinear two point boundary value problem: \[ -\Delta ^{2}u(k-1)=\lambda f(k,u(k)),\quad k\in Z(1,T);\qquad u(0)=0=\Delta u(T), \] where \(T\) is a positive integer, \(Z(1,T)=\{1,2,\dots,T\}\), \(\Delta \) is the forward difference operator defined by \(\Delta u(k)=u(k+1)-u(k)\) and \(f:Z(1,T)\times \mathbb R\rightarrow \mathbb R\) is continuous, \(\lambda \in \mathbb R^{+}\) is a parameter. By means of the critical point theory and the Morse theory the authors obtain some conditions that guarantee the existence of one solution or two nontrivial solutions for the above boundary value problem.