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Existence of Positive Solutions for Singular Difference Equations with Nonlinear Boundary Conditions
by
Hua Luo
Hua Luo 1,* and
Alhussein Mohamed
Alhussein Mohamed 2,*
1
School of Economics and Finance, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai 201620, China
2
College of Mathematics and Statistics, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China
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Symmetry 2024, 16(10), 1313; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym16101313 (registering DOI)
Submission received: 10 September 2024
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Revised: 27 September 2024
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Accepted: 3 October 2024
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Published: 5 October 2024
Abstract
In this paper, we delve into a discrete nonlinear singular semipositone problem, characterized by a nonlinear boundary condition. The nonlinearity, given by with , exhibits a singularity at and tends towards as u approaches . By constructing some suitable auxiliary problems, the difficulty that arises from the singularity and semipositone of nonlinearity and the lack of a maximum principle is overcome. Subsequently, employing the Krasnosel’skii fixed-point theorem, we determine the parameter range that ensures the existence of at least one positive solution and the emergence of at least two positive solutions. Furthermore, based on our existence results, one can obtain the symmetry of the solutions after adding some symmetric conditions on the given functions by using a standard argument.
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Luo, H.; Mohamed, A.
Existence of Positive Solutions for Singular Difference Equations with Nonlinear Boundary Conditions. Symmetry 2024, 16, 1313.
https://doi.org/10.3390/sym16101313
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Luo H, Mohamed A.
Existence of Positive Solutions for Singular Difference Equations with Nonlinear Boundary Conditions. Symmetry. 2024; 16(10):1313.
https://doi.org/10.3390/sym16101313
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Luo, Hua, and Alhussein Mohamed.
2024. "Existence of Positive Solutions for Singular Difference Equations with Nonlinear Boundary Conditions" Symmetry 16, no. 10: 1313.
https://doi.org/10.3390/sym16101313
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