Necessary and sufficient existence conditions for the stabilizing solution
to the time-varying discrete Riccati equation are given. The result is simp
ly expressed in terms of the original input data via the l(2)-uniformly bou
nded invertibility of an appropriate family of Toeplitz-like operators. Int
imate connections with the notions of dichotomy and disconjugacy are also p
ointed out. Some aspects concerning the dependence of the existence conditi
ons on the monotonicity of the input data are investigated as well.