On the structure of an equilibrium of a system of finite-difference equations (Q1778299)

The author investigates asymptotic properties of solutions of the difference system \[ X_{m+1}=AX_m +\varphi(m,X_m), \] where \(A\) is a constant matrix, the nonlinearity \(\varphi\) is continuous in the second matrix variable and satisfies \(\varphi(m,X)=o(\| X\|)\) as \(X\to 0\). Moreover, it is supposed that each initial condition \(X_0\) can be iterated not only to the right (\(m\to \infty\)), but also to the left (\(m\to -\infty\)). The main result is the following discrete version of the classical Perron theorem. Theorem: Let the roots of the characteristic equation \(\det(A-\lambda I)\) satisfy the inequalities \(| \lambda_i| <1\), \(1\leq i\leq k\), and \(| \lambda_{k+i}| >1\), \(1\leq i\leq s\). Then there exists a manifold of initial conditions depending on \(k\) arbitrary parameters such that the trajectories issuing from all points of this manifold tend to the origin as \(m\to \infty\); there exists a manifold of initial conditions depending on \(s\) arbitrary parameters such that the trajectories issuing from all points of this manifold tend to the origin as \(m\to -\infty\). The paper contains only two references (to papers from 1930 and 1934) and no comparison with the numerous papers dealing with the same problem (which appeared in the last decade) is given.