On the Behavior of the Positive Solutions of the System of Two Higher-Order Rational Difference Equations

Qi Wang, Gengrong Zhang, Linlin Fu

College of Mathematics and Information Science, Guangxi University, Nanning, China.
College of Science, Guangxi University of Science and Technology, Liuzhou, China.

DOI: 10.4236/am.2013.48164                

Abstract

We study the convergence of the positive solutions of the system of the following two difference equations:

where K is a positive integer, the parameters A,B, α, β  and the initial conditions are positive real numbers. Our results generalize well known results in [1,2].

Keywords

System of Difference Equations; Convergence; Positive Solution; Behavior

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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