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In this paper, we investigate the local and global stability and the period two solutions of all nonnegative solutions of the difference equation,
where a, b, A, B are all positive real numbers, \(k \ge 1\) is a positive integer, and the initial conditions \(x_{-k},x_{-k+1},...,x_{0}\) are nonnegative real numbers. It is shown that the zero equilibrium point is globally asymptotically stable under the condition \(a+b \le A\), and the unique positive solution is also globally asymptotically stable under the condition \(a-b \le A \le a+b\). By the end, we study the global stability of such an equation through numerically solved examples.
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Saleh, M., Farhat, A. Global asymptotic stability of the higher order equation \(x_{n+1} = \frac{ ax_{n}+bx_{n-k}}{A+Bx_{n-k}}\) . J. Appl. Math. Comput. 55, 135–148 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12190-016-1029-4
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