Periodic solutions of a class of nonlinear difference equations via critical point method

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1639-1647

  Cai, Xiaochun ^a   Yu, Jianshe ^b   Guo, Zhiming ^b  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Critical point theory; Difference equations; Linking theorem; Nonlinear; Periodic solutions

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING; THEOREM PROVING;

CRITICAL POINT THEORY; LINKING THEOREM; NONLINEAR DIFFERENCE EQUATION; PERIODIC SOLUTIONS;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 33846878278     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2006.09.003     Document Type: Article

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