Periodicity of a class of nonautonomous max-type difference equations (Q555342)

The paper contains new unifying periodicity criteria for the following difference equations \[ x_n = \max\left\{f_1(x_{n-k_1},n),\ldots,f_m(x_{n-k_m},n),x_{n-s}\right\}\;,\;n\in{\mathbb N}_0 \] with \(1\leq k_1<\dots<k_m\), \(m,s\in{\mathbb N}\), then for \[ x_n = \min\left\{f_1(x_{n-k_1},n),\dots,f_m(x_{n-k_m},n),x_{n-s}\right\}\;,\;n\in{\mathbb N}_0 \] with \(1\leq k_1<\dots<k_m\), \(m,s\in{\mathbb N}\) and finally for \[ x_n=\max\left\{f_1(x_{n-k_1^{(1)}},\dots,x_{n-k_{t_1}^{(1)}}),\dots, f_m(x_{n-k_1^{(m)}},\dots,x_{n-k_{t_m}^{(m)}}),x_{n-s}\right\}\;,\;n\in{\mathbb N}_0 \] with \(m,s\in{\mathbb N}\), \(t_i\in{\mathbb N}\), \(i=1,\dots,m\), \(1\leq k_1^{(i)}<\dots< k_{t_i}^{(i)}\), \(i=1,\dots,m\). The assumptions are various monotonicity and periodicity conditions for the right hand side of the considered equations.