摘要:In this paper, we derive the solutions of homogeneous and non-homogeneous nth-order linear general quantum difference equations based on the general quantum difference operator D β $D_{\beta }$ which is defined by D β f ( t ) = ( f ( β ( t ) ) − f ( t ) ) / ( β ( t ) − t ) $D_{\beta }{f(t)}= (f(\beta (t))-f(t) )/ (\beta (t)-t )$ , β ( t ) ≠ t $\beta (t)\neq t$ , where β is a strictly increasing continuous function defined on an interval I ⊆ R $I\subseteq \mathbb{R}$ that has only one fixed point s 0 ∈ I $s_(\in {I}$ . We also give the sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of solutions of the β-Cauchy problem of these equations. Furthermore, we present the fundamental set of solutions when the coefficients are constants, the β-Wronskian associated with D β $D_{\beta }$ , and Liouville’s formula for the β-difference equations. Finally, we introduce the undetermined coefficients, the variation of parameters, and the annihilator methods for the non-homogeneous β-difference equations.