Dynamical properties of a class of higher-order nonlinear difference equations (Q628900)

The authors study the higher-order nonlinear difference equation \[ x_n=\frac{\prod_{i=1}^\nu\left(x_{n-i}^{\beta_i}+1\right)+\prod_{i=1}^\nu\left(x_{n-i}^{\beta_i}-1\right)}{\prod_{i=1}^\nu\left(x_{n-i}^{\beta_i}+1\right)-\prod_{i=1}^\nu\left(x_{n-i}^{\beta_i}-1\right)},\;\;n=0,1,\dots \] with \(x_{-\nu}\), \(x_{-\nu+1}, \dots, x_{-1}\in(0,\infty)\), \(\beta_1\in(0,1],\;\beta_i\in(0,+\infty)\;(i=2,3,\dots,\nu)\). They prove that every solution of that difference equation converges to the unique equilibrium \(\bar{x}=1\). At the end of the paper, the authors also show that some results in the recent literature are in fact special cases of their new result.