Abstract
We propose, for the sake of dialogue, that the nonautomomous reciprocal max-type difference equation,
where the parameters are positive periodic sequences and the initial conditions are positive, when \(k=1\) may serve as a phenomenological model of seizure activity as occurs in mesial (or middle) temporal lobe epilepsy.
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Chan, D.M., Kent, C.M., Kocić, V., Stević, S. (2018). A Proposal for an Application of a Max-Type Difference Equation to Epilepsy. In: Pinelas, S., Caraballo, T., Kloeden, P., Graef, J. (eds) Differential and Difference Equations with Applications. ICDDEA 2017. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 230. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75647-9_16
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