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This paper investigates the problem of \(H^\infty\) control for general discrete-time nonlinear systems of the form \[ \begin{aligned} x(k+1) & =F \bigl(x(k), w(k),u(k)\bigr)\\ z(k) & =Z\bigl(x(k), w(k),u(k)\bigr)\\ y(k) & =Y \bigl(x(k), w(k),u(k)\bigr) \end{aligned} \] where \(x\in\mathbb{R}^n\) represents the state defined on a neighborhood of the origin, \(u\in\mathbb{R}^n\) is the control input, \(w \in\mathbb{R}^r\) represents a set of exogenous inputs, \(z\in\mathbb{R}^s\) is the controlled variable, and \(y\in\mathbb{R}^p\) is the measured variable. The standard nonlinear \(H^\infty\) control problem is concerned with constructing a feedback controller to locally asymptotically stabilize the resulting closed-loop system and render its \(L^2\)-gain \(\leq\gamma\) (for a prescribed \(\gamma)\). A family of \(H^\infty\) controllers that solve the problem is characterized via output feedback as well as state feedback.