This paper is concerned with oscillation of self-adjoint second-order vector difference equations with respect to a parameter. Properties of zeros and monotonicity of matrix-valued so-lutions are studied. The oscillation of two consecutive polynomials for vector-valued solutions is discussed. A separation theorem for matrix-valued solutions is also obtained.

This paper is concerned with spectral problems of second-order vector difference equation with two-point boundary value conditions, where the matrix-valued coneffcient of the leading term may be singular. A concept of self-adjointness of the boundary value conditions is introduced. The self-adjointness of the corresponding difference operator is discussed on a suitable admissible function space, and fundamental spcetal results are obtained. The dual orthogonality of eigenfunc-tions is shown in a special case. Reyleigh's principles and the minimax theorems in two linear spaces are given. As an application, a comparison theorem for eigenval-ues of two Sturm-Liouville problems is presented.

In this paper, the notion of anti-control of chaos (or chaotification) is introduced, which means to make an originally non-chaotic dynamical system chaotic or enhance the existing chaos of a chaotic system. The main interest in this paper is to employ the classical feedback control techniques. Only the discrete case is discussed in detail, including both finite-dimensional and infinite-dimensional settings.