Lyapunov functions in stability theory of nonlinear difference delay equations (Q1873473)

Using the direct Lyapunov method, the author obtains sufficient conditions for uniform asymptotic stability and for instability of the zero solution to the following nonlinear difference equation \[ x(k+1)-x(k)=f(k,x[k]), \quad k= \sigma ,\sigma +1,\dots, \] where \(x=(x_1,x_2,\dots,x_n),\) the function \(f:{\mathbb Z}\times {\mathfrak M}_p\rightarrow {\mathbb R}^n\) for each \(k\in {\mathbb Z}\) is defined in the domain \({\mathfrak B}_H^p=\{\left\| \varphi \right\| <H\}\subset {\mathfrak M}_p,\) and there exist constants \(M>0\) and \(d_0>1\) such that \(\left| f(k,\varphi )\right| \leq M\left\| \varphi \right\| ^{d_0},k\in {\mathbb Z}\), \(\varphi \in {\mathfrak B}_H^p.\)