Advances in Difference Equations
Volume 2005 (2005), Issue 3, Pages 333-343
doi:10.1155/ADE.2005.333

Stability of periodic solutions of first-order difference equations lying between lower and upper solutions

Alberto Cabada, Victoria Otero-Espinar, and Dolores Rodríguez-Vivero

Departamento de Análise Matemática, Facultade de Matemáticas, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Santiago de Compostela 15782, Spain

Received 8 January 2004; Revised 2 September 2004

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Abstract

We prove that if there exists αβ, a pair of lower and upper solutions of the first-order discrete periodic problem Δu(n)=f(n,u(n));nIN{0,,N1},u(0)=u(N), with f a continuous N-periodic function in its first variable and such that x+f(n,x) is strictly increasing in x, for every nIN, then, this problem has at least one solution such that its N-periodic extension to is stable. In several particular situations, we may claim that this solution is asymptotically stable.