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# Periodic and subharmonic solutions for a 2$n$th-order $\phi_c$-Laplacian difference equation containing both advances and retardations

• * Corresponding author: Zhan Zhou
• We consider a 2$n$th-order nonlinear difference equation containing both many advances and retardations with $\phi_c$-Laplacian. Using the critical point theory, we obtain some new and concrete criteria for the existence and multiplicity of periodic and subharmonic solutions in the more general case of the nonlinearity.

Mathematics Subject Classification: 39A23.

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