Global period-doubling bifurcation of quadratic fractional second order difference equation (Q2321549)

Summary: We investigate the local stability and the global asymptotic stability of the difference equation \(x_{n + 1} = \left(\alpha x_n^2 + \beta x_n x_{n - 1} + \gamma x_{n - 1}\right) / \left(A x_n^2 + B x_n x_{n - 1} + C x_{n - 1}\right)\), \(n = 0,1, \ldots\) with nonnegative parameters and initial conditions such that \(A x_n^2 + B x_n x_{n - 1} + C x_{n - 1} > 0\), for all \(n \geq 0\). We obtain the local stability of the equilibrium for all values of parameters and give some global asymptotic stability results for some values of the parameters. We also obtain global dynamics in the special case, where \(\beta = B = 0\), in which case we show that such equation exhibits a global period doubling bifurcation.