@Article{Ricceri2025, author = "Ricceri, Biagio", title = "A note on nonlocal discrete problems involving sign-changing Kirchhoff functions", journal = "Opuscula Math.", year = "2025", volume = "45", number = "5", pages = "657--663", doi = "https://doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2025.45.5.657", url = "https://doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2025.45.5.657", abstract = "In this note, we establish a multiplicity theorem for a nonlocal discrete problem of the type \[\begin{cases} -\left(a\sum_{m=1}^{n+1}|x_m-x_{m-1}|^2+b\right)(x_{k+1}-2x_k+x_{k-1})=h_k(x_k), &k=1,\ldots ,n, \\ x_0=x_{n+1}=0 \end{cases}\] assuming \(a\gt 0\) and (for the first time) \(b\gt 0\).", keywords = "minimax theorems, Kirchhoff functions, difference equations, variational methods, multiplicity of solutions", issn = "1232-9274" }