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In this paper, we investigate the existence of nontrivial solutions for an anisotropic discrete nonlinear problem with a p(k)-Laplacian operator. The proof of our main result is based on a local minimum theorem for differentiable functionals due to Ricceri.
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El Allali, Z., Kong, L. & Ousbika, M. Existence of Homoclinic Solutions for the Discrete p(k)-Laplacian Operator. Qual. Theory Dyn. Syst. 21, 37 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12346-022-00568-z
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