Boundary Value Problems 
Volume 2007 (2007), Article ID 38230, 12 pages
doi:10.1155/2007/38230
Research Article

Existence of Positive Solutions for Boundary Value Problems of Nonlinear Functional Difference Equation with p-Laplacian Operator

S. J. Yang, B. Shi, and D. C. Zhang

Institute of Applied Mathematics, Naval Aeronautical Engineering Institute, Yantai 264001, Shandong, China

Received 18 March 2007; Accepted 23 May 2007

Recommended by Raul Manasevich

Abstract

The existence of positive solutions for boundary value problems of nonlinear functional difference equations with p-Laplacian operator is investigated. Sufficient conditions are obtained for the existence of at least one positive solution and two positive solutions.