By using the critical point theory, the existence of periodic solutions to second order nonlinear p-Laplacian difference equations is obtained. The main approach used is a variational technique and the saddle point theorem. The problem is to solve the existence of periodic solutions of second order nonlinear p-Laplacian difference equations.
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