More on Poincaré’s and Perron’s Theorems for Difference Equations∗
- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Journal of Difference Equations and Applications
- Vol. 8 (3), 201-216
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10236190211954
Abstract
Consider the scalar kth order linear difference equation: x(n + k) + pi(n)x(n + k - 1) + … + pk(n)x(n) = 0 where the limits qi=limn→∞Pi(n) (i=1,…,k) are finite. In this paper, we confirm the conjecture formulated recently by Elaydi. Namely, every nonzero solution x of (∗) satisfies the same asymptotic relation as the fundamental solutions described earlier by Perron, ie., ϱ= lim supn→∞ |x(n)| is equal to the modulus of one of the roots of the characteristics equation χ k + q 1χ k−1+…+qk=0. This result is a consequence of a more general theorem concerning the Poincaré difference system x(n+1)=[A+B(n]x(n), where A and B(n) (n=0,1,…) are square matrices such that ‖B(n)‖ →0 as n → ∞. As another corollary, we obtain a new limit relation for the solutions of (∗).Keywords
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