Dynamical Systems Induced by Continuous Time Difference Equations and Long-time Behavior of Solutions (Q4408574)

The paper deals with the continuous time first order difference equation \[ x(t+1)=f(x(t)),\quad t\geq 0, \tag{*} \] where \(f:I\subset \mathbb R \to I\) is a continuous function. Equation (*) is extensively studied e.g. in the book by \textit{A. N. Sharkovsky, Yu. I. Majstrenko} and \textit{E. Yu. Romanenko} [Difference equations and their applications, Kluwer, Dordrecht (1993; Zbl 0806.39001)]. The paper complements this book, in a certain sense, and presents some unpublished results concerning properties of solutions of (*) derived via the \(\omega\)-limit sets of trajectories of a certain dynamical system associated with this equation. A particular attention is devoted to the situation when the \(\omega\)-limit set corresponding to a solution \(x\) is a cycle or the closure of almost periodic trajectory. In this case \(x(t)\) tends (in the Hausdorff metric for graphs) to a certain upper semicontinuous multifunction.