Nontrivial solutions for resonant difference systems via computations of the critical groups (Q641554)

The authors study the existence of solutions of the resonant difference system \[ \left\{ \begin{aligned} -\Delta^2u(k-1)&=f(u(k),v(k)),\qquad k\in [1,N],\\ -\Delta^2v(k-1)&=g(u(k),v(k)),\qquad k\in [1,N],\\ u(0)&=u(N+1)=0,\\ v(0)&=v(N+1)=0,\end{aligned} \right. \tag{P} \] where \(N \geq 3\) is a fixed natural number, \(\Delta u(k)=u(k+1)-u(k)\) and \(\Delta^2 u(k)=\Delta (\Delta u(k))\). The existence of nontrivial solutions of (P) based on minimax methods and Morse theory is investigated.