Bounds for fourth-order \([0,1]\) difference equations (Q929112)

The authors investigate some bounds for the solutions of the fourth-order linear difference equation \[ b_n+\alpha_{n,n-1}b_{n-1}+\alpha_{n,n-2}b_{n-2}+\alpha_{n,n-3}b_{n-3} +\alpha_{n,n-4}b_{n-4}=0,\quad n\geq 1, \] where \(\alpha_{i,j}\in[0,1]\), for \(i\geq 1\) and \(-3\leq j\leq i-1\), and \(b_{-3}\), \(b_{-2}\), \(b_{-1}\), \(b_0\) are given initial starting values. An application to bounds for inverses of banded matrices is also presented.