Global attractivity of a family of nonautonomous max-type difference equations

This paper studies a family of nonautonomous max-type difference equations with several delays. Using some transformations we prove global attractivity of positive solutions to these equations under some conditions. Some of our results considerably extend related ones in the literature. Two examples are given to illustrate the main results.     

On a max-type and a min-type difference equation

This note shows that every positive solution to the following third order non–autonomous max-type difference equation

when is a three-periodic sequence of positive numbers, is periodic with period three. The same result was proved for the following min-type difference equation

     

On a nonlinear generalized max-type difference equation

The boundedness character of positive solutions of the following max-type difference equation

     

Solving a class of nonautonomous difference equations by generalized invariants

By using generalized invariants, we describe a method for solving a class of higher‐order nonautonomous difference equations. Solvability of the equations of order two, three, and four are studied in detail. Our results explain and extend some problems in the literature. As far as we know, the case when the order is four is considered for the first time in this paper. For the equations of second order, we also give an explanation how they can be obtained in a natural way.     

Stability of nonautonomous difference equations with several delays

We consider the possibility to construct efficient stability criteria for solutions to difference equations with variable coefficients. We prove that one can associate a difference equation with a certain functional differential equation, whose solution has the same asymptotic behavior. We adduce examples, demonstrating the essential character of conditions of the obtained theorems and the exactness of the constant 3/2 which defines the boundary of the stability domain.     

Global stability of a difference equation with maximum

We prove that every positive solution to the difference equation

where , i=1,…,k, converges to the following quantity , confirming a quite recent conjecture of interest. We also prove another result on global convergence which concerns some cases when not all α_i,i=1,…,k belong to the interval (0, 1).     

Towards a bifurcation theory for nonautonomous difference equations

Although, bifurcation theory of equations with autonomous and periodic time dependence is a major object of research in the study of dynamical systems since decades, the notion of a nonautonomous bifurcation is not yet established. This article contains an approach to overcome this deficit in the context of nonautonomous difference equations. Based on special notions of attractivity and repulsivity, nonautonomous bifurcation phenomena are studied. We obtain generalizations of the well-known one-dimensional transcritical and pitchfork bifurcation.     

Topological simplification of nonautonomous difference equations

In this paper, we continue the study of geometric properties of nonautonomous difference equations in arbitrary Banach spaces which was begun in [2 Aulbach, B. 1998. The fundamental existence theorem on invariant fiber bundles. Journal of Difference Equations and Applications, 3(5–6): 501–537.  [Google Scholar],3 Aulbach, B. and Wanner, T. 2003. Invariant foliations and decoupling of non-autonomous difference equations. Journal of Difference Equations and Applications, 9(5): 459–472. [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]]. Building on previous results on invariant fiber bundles and foliations, this paper addresses the problem of topological simplifications via continuous conjugacies and semiconjugacies. In particular, we establish a reduction principle for not necessarily invertible difference equations, as well as a generalized Hartman–Grobman theorem for systems with not necessarily invertible linear part.     

Periodicity of some classes of holomorphic difference equations

In this paper, we investigate the periodicity character of some classes of difference equations. Among other results, we give a simpler proof of an Open Problem addressed in Csörnyei and Laczkovich, 2001, “Some periodic and non-periodic recursions”, Monath. Math., 132, 215–236. We also consider Open Problem 2.8 in Grove and Ladas, 2005, Periodicities in Nonlinear Difference Equations, (Chapman and Hall/CRC), and the case when a difference equation has periodic solutions depending on arbitrary parameters.     

Time periodic solutions of a class of degenerate parabolic equations

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具连续变量的偶数阶中立型差分方程的振动性

研究具有连续变量的偶数阶中立型时滞差分方程的解的振动性,给出了有界解振动的几个充分条件.     

脉冲时滞差分方程非振动解的存在性

讨论脉冲时滞差分方程 给出了由时滞差分方程非振动解的存在性刻划出相应的脉冲时滞差分方程的同样性质的一般性脉冲条件。     

On a class of third-order nonlinear difference equations

This paper studies the boundedness character of the positive solutions of the difference equation

     

On the solutions of a class of difference equations

In this note we investigate the solutions of a class of difference equations and prove that Conjectures 4.8.2, 4.8.3, 5.4.6 and 6.10.3 proposed by M. Kulenovic and G. Ladas in [M. Kulenovic, G. Ladas, Dynamics of Second Order Rational Difference Equations, with Open Problems and Conjectures, Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, 2002] are true.     

Asymptotic behavior of solutions for a class of retarded difference equations

Consider the retarded difference equationx _n −x _n−1 =F(−f(x _n )+g(x _n−k )), wherek is a positive integer,F,f,g:R→R are continuous,F andf are increasing onR, anduF(u)>0 for allu≠0. We show that whenf(y)≥g(y) (resp. f(y)≤g(y)) fory∈R, every solution of (*) tends to either a constant or −∞ (resp. ∞) asn→∞. Furthermore, iff(y)≡g(y) fory∈R, then every solution of (*) tends to a constant asn→∞. Project supported by NNSF (19601016) of China and NSF (97-37-42) of Hunan     

Forward attraction in nonautonomous difference equations

Two types of attractors consisting of families of sets that are mapped into each other under the dynamics have been defined for nonautonomous difference equations, one using pullback convergence with information about the system in the past and the other using forward convergence with information about the system in the future. In both cases, the component sets are constructed using a pullback argument within a positively invariant family of sets. The forward attractor so constructed also uses information about the past, which is very restrictive and not essential for determining future behaviour. Here an alternative is investigated, essentially the omega-limit set of the system, which Chepyzhov and Vishik called the uniform attractor. It is shown here that this set is asymptotically positively invariant, thus providing it with an hitherto missing form of invariance, if in somewhat weaker than usual, that one expects an attractor to possess. As a consequence this set provides useful information about the behaviour in current time during the approach to the limit.     

Homoclinic solutions of a class of periodic difference equations with asymptotically linear nonlinearities

By using critical point theory and periodic approximations, new sufficient conditions are obtained on the existence and nonexistence of homoclinic solutions for a class of discrete nonlinear periodic equations with asymptotically linear nonlinearities. These results partially answer an open problem proposed by Pankov (2006) [2] under rather weaker conditions and greatly improve the related results before.     

Pullback attractors in nonautonomous difference equations

Nonautonomous difference equations are formulated as cocycles which generalize semigroups corresponding to autonomous difference equations. Pullback attractors are the appropriate generalization of autonomous attractors to cocycles. The existence of a pullback attractor follows when the difference equation cocycle has a pullback absorbing set. Results from the literature are outlined, including the construction of a Lyapunov function characterizing pullback attraction, and illustrated with several examples.