Existence and uniqueness theorems for nonlinear difference equations (Q579538)

The paper deals with existence and uniqueness theory associated with certain boundary value problems for the nth order nonlinear difference equation \(Py(t-k)=f(t,y(t))\) with \(Py(t-k)=\sum^{n}_{i=0}\alpha_ i(t)y(t-k+i)\) (1\(\leq k\leq n-1\); \(\alpha_ i(t)\) defined for integer values of t satisfying \(\alpha +k\leq t\leq b+k\) \((a<b\) are integers); \((- 1)^ n\alpha_ 0(t)>0\), and f(t,y) is a continuous function of the real variable y). Various theorems are given.