Positive solutions for a system of Neumann boundary value problems of second-order difference equations involving sign-changing nonlinearities (Q2631897)

Summary: In this paper, we study the existence of positive solutions for the system of second-order difference equations involving Neumann boundary conditions: \(- \Delta^2 u_1(t - 1) = f_1(t, u_1(t), u_2(t))\), \(t \in [1, T]_{\mathbb{Z}}\), \(- \Delta^2 u_2(t - 1) = f_2(t, u_1(t), u_2(t))\), \(t \in [1, T]_{\mathbb{Z}}\), \(\Delta u_i(0) = \Delta u_i(T) = 0\), \(i = 1,2\), where \(T > 1\) is a given positive integer, \(\Delta u(t) = u(t + 1) - u(t)\), and \(\Delta^2 u(t) = \Delta(\Delta u(t))\). Under some appropriate conditions for our sign-changing nonlinearities, we use the fixed point index to establish our main results.