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The Existence of Periodic and Subharmonic Solutions of Subquadratic Second Order Difference Equations
Department of Applied Mathematics, Hunan University Changsha, Hunan 410082, China, gzm100{at}21cn.com
Department of Applied Mathematics, Hunan University Changsha, Hunan 410082, China, jsyu{at}hnu.net.cn
Received 5 August 2002. Revision received 20 February 2003.
By critical point theory, a new approach is provided to study the existence of periodic and subharmonic solutions of the second order difference equation
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where f
C(R x Rm, Rm), f(t+M,z)+f(t,z) for any (t, z)
R x Rm and M is a positive integer. This is probably the first time critical point theory has been applied to deal with the existence of periodic solutions of difference systems.
