Bendixson-Dulac Criteria for Difference Equations

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 10 - Trang 567-575 - 1998
C. Connell McCluskey1, James S. Muldowney1
1Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Alberta Edmonton Canada

Tóm tắt

Conditions are given which preclude the existence of a nontrivial periodic orbit for a difference equation in ℝn. The conditions are analogous to those of Bendixson and Dulac for autonomous planar differential equations.

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