Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A Mathematics · 2004 · 117 citations · 0 references
Natural SciencesMathematicsDifferential EquationsDiscrete MathematicsDynamical SystemsContinuous Dynamical SystemsDiscrete Dynamical SystemsFixed PointsNonlinear DynamicsStability TheoryCritical Point TheoryPeriodic Solutions Of Differential Equations
Consider the second-order discrete system where f ∈ C (R × R m , R m ), f ( t + M, Z ) = f ( t, Z ) for any ( t, Z ) ∈ R × R m and M is a positive integer. By making use of critical-point theory, the existence of M -periodic solutions of (*) is obtained.