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Chinese Journal of Engineering Mathematics ›› 2024, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (5): 973-979.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1005-3085.2024.05.013

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Homoclinic Solutions for the Kirchhoff-type Difference Equations with Periodic Coefficients

WANG Zhenguo1,   DING Lianye2   

  1. 1. Department of Mathematics, Taiyuan University, Taiyuan 030032
    2. School of Mathematics and Statistics, Huanghuai University, Zhumadian 463000
  • Received:2022-12-02 Accepted:2023-06-07 Online:2024-10-15
  • Supported by:
    The Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province (232300420127); the Scientific Research Project of Taiyuan University (23TYYB04).

Abstract:

By means of critical point theory, we investigate homoclinic solution problems for the Kirchhoff-type difference equations with periodic coefficients. First, we verify that the graph of the energy functional satisfies the mountain pass geometrical properties. Such mountain pass geometry produces a Palais-Smale sequence. Second, we exploit one global property condition to guarantee that this Palais-Smale sequence is bounded. Further, by using the subset of $l^{2}$ consisting of functions with compact support and periodicity of coefficients, we obtain the existence of one nontrivial homoclinic solution for the Kirchhoff-type difference equations with periodic coefficients. Finally, two examples are given to illustrate our main results.

Key words: Kirchhoff-type difference equations, homoclinic solutions, Palais-Smale sequence, mountain pass lemma

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