GLOBAL ATTRACTIVITY IN A FOUR-TERM RECURRENCE RELATION

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LONG-TU LI
SUI SUN CHENG

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Positive solutions of the four-term recurrence relation $x_{n+1}=f(x_n)g(x_{n-1}, x_{n-2})$ are shown to converge to its positive equalibrium points under relative mild conditions.




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LI, L.-T., & CHENG, S. S. (2021). GLOBAL ATTRACTIVITY IN A FOUR-TERM RECURRENCE RELATION. Tamkang Journal of Mathematics, 30(3), 223–229. https://doi.org/10.5556/j.tkjm.30.1999.4229
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