Advances in Difference Equations
Volume 2004 (2004), Issue 2, Pages 121-139
doi:10.1155/S168718390430806X
Rate of convergence of solutions of rational difference equation of second order
Department of Mathematics, University of Rhode Island, Kingston 02881-0816, RI, USA
Received 13 August 2003; Revised 7 October 2003
Copyright © 2004 S. Kalabušić and M. R. S. Kulenović. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
We investigate the rate of convergence of solutions of some
special cases of the equation xn+1=(α+βxn+γxn−1)/(A+Bxn+Cxn−1), n=0,1,…, with
positive parameters and nonnegative initial conditions.
We give precise results about the rate of convergence of the
solutions that converge to the equilibrium or period-two solution
by using Poincaré's theorem and an improvement of Perron's
theorem.