Paper Title:

Existence of Non-spurious Solutions to Discrete Boundary Value Problems

Author(s):

Irena Rachunkova and Christopher C. Tisdell

Department of Mathematics
Palacky University
771 46 Olomouc, Czech Republic.
rachunko@risc.upol.cz
URL: http://phoenix.inf.upol.cz/~rachunekl/mathair/matha-en.htm

School of Mathematics
The University of New South Wales
Sydney 2052, Australia.
cct@unsw.edu.au
URL: http://www.maths.unsw.edu.au/~cct

Abstract:

This paper investigates discrete boundary value problems (BVPs) involving second-order difference equations and two-point boundary conditions. General theorems guaranteeing the existence and uniqueness of solutions to the discrete BVP are established. The methods involve a sufficient growth condition to yield an a priori bound on solutions to a certain family of discrete BVPs. The em a priori bounds on solutions to the discrete BVP do not depend on the step-size and thus there are no ``spurious'' solutions. It is shown that solutions of the discrete BVP will converge to solutions of ordinary differential equations.

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