Disconjugacy and C-disfocality of second-order self-adjoint difference equation (Q2485522)

Let \(N(a+1,b+1)\) be a discrete interval. If \(p(t)\) has the same sign for each \(t\in N(a+1,b+2)\) and \(q(t)\) is real-valued on \(N(a+1, b+1)\), then under some additional assumptions the difference equation \[ \Delta\bigl[p(t)\Delta u(t-1)+q(t)u(t)\bigr]=0 \] is disconjugate on \(N(a,b-2)\) or \(C\)-disfocal, respectively. Four illustrative examples are included.