Advances in Difference Equations
Volume 2004 (2004), Issue 1, Pages 11-22
doi:10.1155/S1687183904310046
    
    
    Finite difference schemes with monotone operators
    
    Department of Mathematics, Technical University “Gh. Asachi” of Iasi, 11, Bd. Carol I, Iasi 700506, Romania
    
    
    
    Received 13 October 2003; Revised 10 December 2003
    	
    
     
    Copyright © 2004 N. C. Apreutesei. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
     
    
   
 
Abstract
Several existence theorems are given for some second-order difference equations associated with maximal monotone operators in Hilbert spaces. Boundary conditions of monotone type are attached. The main tool used here is the theory of maximal monotone operators.