Advances in Difference Equations
Volume 2005 (2005), Issue 2, Pages 205-214
doi:10.1155/ADE.2005.205

Construction of upper and lower solutions for singular discrete initial and boundary value problems via inequality theory

Haishen Lü1 and Donal O'Regan2

1Department of Applied Mathematics, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
2Department of Mathematics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

Received 25 May 2004

Copyright © 2005 Haishen Lü and Donal O'Regan. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

We present new existence results for singular discrete initial and boundary value problems. In particular our nonlinearity may be singular in its dependent variable and is allowed to change sign.