On Sturm-Liouville boundary value problems for second-order nonlinear functional finite difference equations (Q929954)

Motivated by \textit{I. Yaslan Karaca}'s results in [ibid. 205, No.~1, 458--468 (2007; Zbl 1127.39028)], the author gives sufficient conditions for the existence of solutions of a Sturm-Liouville boundary value problem for the second-order nonlinear functional finite difference equation \[ \Delta^2x(n)=f(n,x(n+1), x(n-\tau_1(n)),\dots,x(n-\tau_m(n))), \] where \(f\) is allowed to be linear, superlinear or sublinear. Let \(\mathbb{T}\) be a time scale including \(0\) and \(T>0\). Using Schauder's fixed point theorem and the upper and lower solution method, the author obtains some results on the existence of a positive solution for an \(m\)-point singular \(p\)-Laplacian dynamic equation with a boundary condition.