# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

## Positive solutions of the discrete Robin problem with $\phi$-Laplacian

 1 School of Mathematics and Information Science, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China 2 Center for Applied Mathematics Guangzhou University Guangzhou 510006, China

* Corresponding author: Zhan Zhou

Received  April 2019 Revised  October 2019 Published  April 2020

In this paper, by using critical point theory, we obtain some sufficient conditions on the existence of infinitely many positive solutions of the discrete Robin problem with $\phi$-Laplacian. We show that, an unbounded sequence of positive solutions and a sequence of positive solutions which converges to zero will emerge from the suitable oscillating behavior of the nonlinear term at infinity and at the zero, respectively. We also give two examples to illustrate our main results.

Citation: Jiaoxiu Ling, Zhan Zhou. Positive solutions of the discrete Robin problem with $\phi$-Laplacian. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2020338
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Tang, Non-Nehari manifold method for periodic discrete superlinear Schrödinger equation, Acta Math. Sin. (Engl. Ser.), 32 (2016), 463-473.  doi: 10.1007/s10114-016-4262-8.  Google Scholar [23] J. S. Yu and B. Zheng, Modeling Wolbachia infection in mosquito population via discrete dynamical model, Journal of Difference Equations and Applications, 25 (2019), 1549-1567.  doi: 10.1080/10236198.2019.1669578.  Google Scholar [24] Q. Q. Zhang, Homoclinic orbits for a class of discrete periodic Hamiltonian systems, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 143 (2015), 3155-3163.  doi: 10.1090/S0002-9939-2015-12107-7.  Google Scholar [25] Q. Q. Zhang, Homoclinic orbits for discrete Hamiltonian systems with indefinite linear part, Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis, 14 (2015), 1929-1940.  doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2015.14.1929.  Google Scholar [26] Q. Q. 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