Open Access Research Article

Existence of Positive Solutions for Boundary Value Problems of Nonlinear Functional Difference Equation with -Laplacian Operator

SJ Yang, B Shi* and DC Zhang

Author Affiliations

Institute of Applied Mathematics, Naval Aeronautical Engineering Institute, Yantai, Shandong 264001, China

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Boundary Value Problems 2007, 2007:038230 doi:10.1155/2007/38230


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Received:18 March 2007
Accepted:23 May 2007
Published:14 August 2007

© 2007 Yang et al.

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The existence of positive solutions for boundary value problems of nonlinear functional difference equations with -Laplacian operator is investigated. Sufficient conditions are obtained for the existence of at least one positive solution and two positive solutions.

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