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Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 969813, 11 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/969813
Local Stability of Period Two Cycles of Second Order Rational Difference Equation
1School of Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Selangor, 43600 Bangi, Malaysia
2Department of Basic Sciences, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, P.O. Box 22490, Riyadh 11426, Saudi Arabia
Received 1 September 2012; Accepted 11 October 2012
Academic Editor: Mustafa Kulenovic
Copyright © 2012 S. Atawna et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
We consider the second order rational difference equation n = 0,1,2,…, where the parameters are positive real numbers, and the initial conditions are nonnegative real numbers. We give a necessary and sufficient condition for the equation to have a prime period-two solution. We show that the period-two solution of the equation is locally asymptotically stable. In particular, we solve Conjecture 5.201.2 proposed by Camouzis and Ladas in their book (2008) which appeared previously in Conjecture 11.4.3 in Kulenović and Ladas monograph (2002).