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A Laplace Ladder of Discrete Laplace Equations

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We present the notion of a Laplace ladder for a discrete analogue of the Laplace equation. We introduce the adjoint of the discrete Moutard equation and a discrete counterpart of the nonlinear representation for the Goursat equation.

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Nieszposki, M. A Laplace Ladder of Discrete Laplace Equations. Theoretical and Mathematical Physics 133, 1576–1584 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021159129804

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