Existence of positive solutions for nonpositive difference equations (Q1376763)

Under some assumptions, too complicated to be presented here, there exists at least one positive solution of the discrete boundary value problem \[ \Delta^nu(i)+ f(i,u(i),\Delta u(i),\dots, \Delta^{n-2}u(i))= 0,\quad i\in[0, T],\quad n\geq 2, \] \[ \Delta^mu(0)= 0,\quad 0\leq m\leq n-3;\quad \alpha\Delta^{n-2}u(0)- \beta\Delta^{n-1} u(0)= 0, \] \[ \gamma\Delta^{n-1} u(T+1)+ \delta\Delta^{n-1} u(T+ 1)= 0, \] where \(T\geq 1\) is a fixed positive integer.