Periodic solutions of second order nonlinear difference equations with singular \(\phi\)-Laplacian operator (Q2321469)

Summary: We obtain some existence results of solutions for discrete periodic boundary value problems with singular \(\phi\)-Laplacian operator \(\nabla \left(\Delta u_k / \sqrt{1 - \kappa(\Delta u_k)^2}\right) + r_k u_k + \left(m_k /(u_k)^\lambda\right) = e_k\), \(2 \leq k \leq N - 1\), \(u_1 = u_N\), and \(\Delta u_1 = \Delta u_{N - 1}\) by using the upper and lower solutions method and Brouwer degree theory, where \(\kappa > 0\) is a constant, \(\mathbf{r} = (r_2, \ldots, r_{N - 1})\), \(\mathbf{m} = (m_2, \ldots, m_{N - 1})\), \(\mathbf{e} = (e_2, \ldots, e_{N - 1}) \in \mathbb{R}^{N - 2}\), and \(\lambda > 0\) is a parameter. We also give some examples with singular nonlinearities to illustrate our main results.