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Making use of the critical point theory, we obtain the existence of periodic solutions for higher order difference equations containing both many advances and retardations. The main approaches used in our paper are variational techniques and the Saddle Point Theorem. The problem is to solve the existence of periodic solutions for higher order difference equations containing both many advances and retardations. Related results in the literature are generalized.
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Xia, F. Existence of periodic solutions for higher order difference equations containing both many advances and retardations. RACSAM 112, 239–249 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13398-017-0376-9
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