scholarly journals Spectrum of Discrete Second-Order Difference Operator with Sign-Changing Weight and Its Applications

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruyun Ma ◽  
Chenghua Gao
Keyword(s):  
Eigenvalue Problems ◽  
Difference Operator ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Order Difference ◽  
Sign Changing Solutions

LetT>1be an integer, and let𝕋=1,2,…,T. We discuss the spectrum of discrete linear second-order eigenvalue problemsΔ2ut-1+λmtut=0, t∈𝕋,  u0=uT+1=0, whereλ≠0is a parameter,m:𝕋→ℝchanges sign andmt≠0on𝕋. At last, as an application of this spectrum result, we show the existence of sign-changing solutions of discrete nonlinear second-order problems by using bifurcate technique.

scholarly journals Spectrum of discrete 2n-th order difference operator with periodic boundary conditions and its applications

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-507
Author(s):  
Abdelrachid El Amrouss ◽  
Omar Hammouti
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Variational Methods ◽  
Critical Point Theory ◽  
Periodic Boundary ◽  
Eigenvalue Problems ◽  
Difference Operator ◽  
Periodic Boundary Conditions ◽  
Point Theory ◽  
Existence Of A Solution ◽  
Order Difference

Let \(n\in\mathbb{N}^{*}\), and \(N\geq n\) be an integer. We study the spectrum of discrete linear \(2n\)-th order eigenvalue problems \[\begin{cases}\sum_{k=0}^{n}(-1)^{k}\Delta^{2k}u(t-k) = \lambda u(t) ,\quad & t\in[1, N]_{\mathbb{Z}}, \\ \Delta^{i}u(-(n-1))=\Delta^{i}u(N-(n-1)),\quad & i\in[0, 2n-1]_{\mathbb{Z}},\end{cases}\] where \(\lambda\) is a parameter. As an application of this spectrum result, we show the existence of a solution of discrete nonlinear \(2n\)-th order problems by applying the variational methods and critical point theory.

Non-self-adjoint difference operators and their spectrum

2005 ◽  
Vol 461 (2057) ◽  
pp. 1505-1531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Howard Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Difference Operator ◽  
Discrete Analogue ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Difference Operators ◽  
Essential Difference ◽  
Order Difference ◽  
Second Order Differential Equations ◽  
Forward Difference ◽  
Difference Expression ◽  
Complex Coefficients

Initially, this paper is a discrete analogue of the work of Brown et al. (1999 Proc. R. Soc. A 455 , 1235–1257) on second-order differential equations with complex coefficients. That is, we investigate the general non-self-adjoint second-order difference expression where the coefficients p n and q n are complex and Δ is the forward difference operator, i.e. Δ x n = x n +1 − x n . Properties of the so-called Hellinger–Nevanlinna m -function for the recurrence relation Mx n = λ w n x n , where the w n are real and positive, are examined, and relationships between the properties of the m -function and the spectrum of the associated operator are explored. However, an essential difference between the continuous and the discrete case arises in the way in which we define the operator natural to the problem. Nevertheless, analogous results regarding the spectrum of this operator are obtained.

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