RT journal article T1 On proportional hybrid operators in the discrete setting A1 Lizama, Carlos A1 Murillo Arcila, Marina A2 Matemáticas K1 and Poisson transformation K1 discrete Laplace K1 fractional Caputo and Riemann–Liouville operators K1 Laplace K1 Mittag-Leffler functions and sequences K1 proportional hybrid operators K1 Toeplitz operators AB In this article, we introduce a new nonlocal operator (Formula presented.) defined as a linear combination of the discrete fractional Caputo operator and the fractional sum operator. A new dual operator (Formula presented.) is also introduced by replacing the discrete fractional Caputo operator with the discrete fractional Riemann–Liouville operator. It is shown that it corresponds to a natural discretization of a proportional hybrid operator defined by the Riemann–Liouville operator instead of Caputo hybrid operator. We then analyze the most important properties of these operators, such as their inverse operator and the (Formula presented.) -transform, among others. As an application, we solve difference equations equipped with these operators and obtain explicit solutions for them in terms of trivariate Mittag-Leffler sequences. PB John Wiley and Sons Ltd SN 1099-1476 YR 2024 FD 2024 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/35599 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/35599 LA eng DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz RD 10-may-2026