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On solutions of a system of rational difference equations

Yu Yang, Li Chen and Yong-Guo Shi

Received: February 10, 2009;   Accepted: September 25, 2010



Abstract.   In this paper we investigate the system of rational difference equations  
formula
where q is a positive integer with p q, p \not | q, p is an odd number and p ³ 3, both a and b are nonzero real constants and the initial values x-q+1, x-q+2, . . . x0, y-q+1, y-q+2, . . ., y0 are nonzero real numbers. We show all real solutions of the system are eventually periodic with period 2pq (resp. 4pq) when (a/b)q = 1 (resp. (a/b)q = -1), characterize the asymptotic behavior of the solutions when a ³ b, which generalizes Őzban's results of in [Appl. Math. Comput. 188 (2007), 833-837].

Keywords:  System of difference equations; homogeneous equations of degree one; eventually periodic solutions.  

AMS Subject classification: Primary:  39A11, 37B20.  


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