“…In many studies (see, e.g., [3,4,9,11,12,14,15,23]) of second order difference equations, the following classical Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz condition is assumed (AR) there exists a constant β > 2 such that 0 < βF(k, u) uf(k, u) for all k ∈ Z and u ∈ R \ {0}.…”