on a solvable system of difference equations of kth order it is shown that the next system of k difference equationsx n j a n j x n k j b n j i 1 kx n i s j i 1 c n j n n 0 j 1 k where a n j b n j c n j

on continuous solutions of a class of systems of nonlinear functional difference equations with deviating argument abstract bounded continuous solutions on r of a class of systems of nonlinear functional difference equations with a complicated nonlinear deviation of the argument that depends on unknown functions are studied here

linear quadratic optimal control for time delay stochastic system with recursive utility under full and partial information abstract this article studies a linear quadratic lq optimal control problem for time delay stochastic system with recursive utility under full and partial information the system is described by an anticipated forward backward stochastic delayed differential equation afbsdde we obtain an explicit representation of optimal control in an open loop form for the time delay problem by hamiltonian system which is an afbsdde in double dimensions d afbsdde also we study a partial information counterpart of the above problem and obtain an optimal control by optimal filtering as applications of theoretical results a cash management problem is solved analytic optimal controls are given and some figures are used to illustrate the influence of delay on optimal solution

on a system of two nonlinear difference equations abstract in this paper we study the oscillatory behavior the boundedness of the solutions and the global asymptotic stability of the positive equilibrium of the system of two nonlinear difference equationsxn 1 a yn xn p yn 1 a xn yn q n 0 1 p qare positive integers

domains of undefinable solutions of some equations and systems of difference equations for some classes of difference equations and systems of difference equations we find the sets of initial values for which solutions of these equations and systems are not well defined so called domains of undefinable solutions

adaptive mixed hybrid and penalty discontinuous galerkin method for two phase flow in heterogeneous media in this paper we present a hybrid method which consists of a mixed hybrid finite element method and a penalty discontinuous galerkin method for the approximation of a fractional flow formulation of a two phase flow problem in heterogeneous media with discontinuous capillary pressure the fractional flow formulation is comprised of a wetting phase pressure equation and a wetting phase saturation equation which are coupled through a total velocity and the saturation affected coefficients for the wetting phase pressure equation the continuous mixed hybrid finite element method space can be utilized due to a fundamental property that the wetting phase pressure is continuous while it can reduce the computational cost by using less degrees of freedom and avoiding the post processing of velocity reconstruction this method can also keep several good properties of the discontinuous galerkin method which are important to the fractional flow formulation such as the local mass balance continuous normal flux and capability of handling the discontinuous capillary pressure for the wetting phase saturation equation the penalty discontinuous galerkin method is utilized due to its capability of handling the discontinuous jump of the wetting phase saturation furthermore an adaptive algorithm for the hybrid method together with the centroidal voronoi delaunay triangulation technique is proposed five numerical examples are presented to illustrate the features of proposed numerical method such as the optimal convergence order the accurate and efficient velocity approximation and the applicability to the simulation of water flooding in oil field and the oil trapping or barrier effect phenomena

unique existence of bounded continuous solutions on the real line of a class of nonlinear functional equations with complicated deviations abstract the existence and uniqueness of bounded continuous solutions on the real line of a general class of nonlinear functional equations with quite complicated deviations dependent of unknown functions are established in this paper

more on a rational second order difference equation abstract here we give natural explanations for some recent relations for the solutions of the following difference equation z n 2 z n 1 3 z n 2 2 z n 1 2 n n 0 and extend them for the case of complex initial values we also present some other properties related to solutions of the equation as well as some properties of the solutions of an associate difference equation of first order

global stability of some symmetric difference equations suppose r 0 1 m n and 1 k1 k2 k2m 1 and let s2m 1 1 2 2m 1 we show that every positive solution to the difference equation yn p2m 12m 1 yn k1r yn k2r yn k2m 1r p2m2m 1 yn k1r yn k2r yn k2m 1r n n0 where p2m 12m 1 x1 x2 x2m 1 r 1rodd2m 1 t1 t2 tr s2m 1t1 t2 trxt1xt2 xtr and p2m2m 1 x1 x2 x2m 1 1 r 2reven2m t1 t2 tr s2m 1t1 t2 trxt1xt2 xtr converges to one this result confirms a quite recent conjecture posed by liu and yang 2010 in 10 we also prove another result regarding a related equation

on some systems of difference equations abstract in this note we show that the following systems of difference equations u n 1 v n 1 v n v n 1 u n 1 u n u n 1 v n 1 u n v n 1 u n 1 v n u n 1 u n 1 v n v n 1 v n 1 u n with n n 0 and complex initial values u 0 and v 0 are solvable explicitly by means of riccati equations and based on the formulae for the general solutions we present the behaviour of their solutions as n while the result is natural for the first system it is a bit surprising for the other two systems

on a system of difference equations of odd order solvable in closed form it is shown that the next system of difference equationsx n c ny n 2 k 1 a n b ny n 2 k 1 i 1 k 1y n 2 i 1 x n 2 i y email protected nx n 2 k 1 a email protected nx n 2 k 1 i 1 k 1x n 2 i 1 y n 2 email protected n 0 where a n b n c n a n b n c n email protected n 0 and initial values x i y i email protected 1 2 2k 1 are real numbers is solved in closed form and the behavior of its well defined solutions when all the coefficients in the system are constant is described

on the difference equation xn xn 2 bn cnxn 1xn 2 abstract we prove that the difference equation x n x n 2 b n c n x n 1 x n 2 n n 0 where b n n n 0 and c n n n 0 are sequences periodic with period two and the initial values x 2 x 1 are real numbers can be solved explicitly some applications of obtained formulae are given

on the system of two difference equations xn 1 i 0kai yn ipi yn 1 i 0kbi xn iqi abstract in this paper we study the system of two difference equations of the form x n 1 i 0 k a i y n i p i y n 1 i 0 k b i x n i q i where a i b i i 0 1 k x i y i i k k 1 0 are positive numbers and p i q i i 0 k are positive constants more precisely we investigate the boundedness the persistence of the positive solutions the existence of a unique positive equilibrium and the global asymptotic stability of the positive equilibrium of the above system finally we find solutions of the system which do not oscillate about the positive equilibrium

global stability and asymptotics of some classes of rational difference equations in this note we prove that the positive solutions of some classes of rational difference equations are globally asymptotically stable using a berg s result we also find asymptotics of some solutions of these equations

on the difference equation xn xn kb cxn 1 xn k abstract we describe the behavior of well defined solutions of the difference equation x n x n k b cx n 1 x n k n n 0 where k n parameters b c and the initial values x k x 1 are real numbers these results among others improve and extend our results in s stevic more on a rational recurrence relation appl math e notes 4 2004 80 85

on a solvable system of difference equations of fourth order it is shown that the next system of k difference equationsx n j a n j x n k j b n j i 1 kx n i s j i 1 c n j n n 0 j 1 k where a n j b n j c n j n n 0 j 1 k and initial values x i j i j 1 k are real numbers and where s n 1 k is defined by s km j j 1 j 1 k 1 s km k 1 m n 0 can be solved in closed form in an elegant way some applications of obtained formulas for the case when the sequences a n j b n j and c n j are k periodic are also given

on the system of difference equations x n x n 1 y n 2 a y n 2 b y n 1 y n y n 1 x n 2 c x n 2 d x n 1 we show that the following system of difference equations x n x n 1 y n 2 a y n 2 b y n 1 y n y n 1 x n 2 c x n 2 d x n 1 n n 0 where parameters a b c d as well as initial values x 2 x 1 y 2 y 1 are real numbers is solvable in closed form and by using obtained formulas we give some results on the long term behavior of their solutions we also give natural explanations and considerably extend some recent results in the literature

solutions of a max type system of difference equations we show in an elegant way that the general solution to the following max type system of difference equations xn 1 maxaxn ynxn yn 1 maxayn xnyn n n0 for the case y0 x0 a 0 y0 x0 max a 1 a is given by xn afk n 1 n x0fk n y0fk n 1 n n n y1 x0 y0 and yn y0fk n 1 1afk n 1 n 1x0fk n 1 1 1 n n 2 where k n n for n even k n n 1 for n odd n n0 n n mod2 for n n0 and where the sequence fn n n is the fibonacci sequence correcting and giving a proof of a wrong result in the paper d simsek b demir c cinar on the solutions of the system of difference equations xn 1 max a xn yn xn yn 1 max a yn xn yn discrete dyn nat soc 2009 2009 11 pp article id 325296

local existence of lipschitz continuous solutions of systems of nonlinear functional equations with iterated deviations abstract some conditions which guarantee the local existence of lipschitz continuous solutions of some systems of nonlinear functional equations with complicated deviations dependent of unknown functions are presented

error estimates for a mixed finite element discretization of a two phase porous media flow model with dynamic capillarity abstract we analyze a fully discrete numerical scheme for the model describing two phase immiscible flow in porous media with dynamic effects in the capillary pressure we employ the euler implicit method for the time discretization the spatial discretization is based on the mixed finite element method mfem specifically the lowest order raviart thomas elements are applied in this paper the error estimates for the saturation fluxes and phase pressures in l 0 t l 2 are derived for the temporal and spatial discretization to show the convergence of the scheme finally we present some numerical results to support the theoretical findings

on the system xn 1 ynx n k yn k 1 an bnynxn k yn 1 xnyn k xn k 1 cn dnxnyn k it is shown that the system of difference equationsx n 1 y nx n ky n k 1 a n b ny nx n k y n 1 x ny n kx n k 1 c n d nx ny n k email protected n 0 where email protected n the sequences a n b n c n d n email protected n 0 and the initial values x i y i i 0 email protected are real numbers can be solved in closed form asymptotic behavior of well defined solutions of the system for the case when all the sequences a n b n c n and d n are constant is studied in detail

stabilization of low order cross grid pkql mixed finite elements abstract in this paper we analyze a low order family of mixed finite element methods for the numerical solution of the stokes problem and a second order elliptic problem in two space dimensions in these schemes the pressure is interpolated on a mesh of rectangular elements while the velocity is approximated on a triangular mesh obtained by dividing each rectangle into four triangles by its diagonals for the lowest order p 1 q 0 a global spurious pressure mode is shown to exist and so this element as p 1 q 1 case analyzed in armentano and blasco 2010 is unstable however following the ideas given in bochev et al 2006 a simple stabilization procedure can be applied when we approximate the solution of the stokes problem such that the new p 1 q 0 and p 1 q 1 methods are unconditionally stable and achieve optimal accuracy with respect to solution regularity with simple and straightforward implementations moreover we analyze the application of our p 1 q 1 element to the mixed formulation of the elliptic problem in this case by introducing the modified mixed weak form proposed in brezzi et al 1993 optimal order of accuracy can be obtained with our stabilized p 1 q 1 elements numerical results are also presented which confirm the existence of the spurious pressure mode for the p 1 q 0 element and the excellent stability and accuracy of the new stabilized methods

on the system of difference equations xn cnyn 3 an bnyn 1xn 2y n 3 yn γnxn 3 αn βnxn 1yn 2 xn 3 we show that the system of difference equationsx n c ny n 3a n b ny n 1x n 2y n 3 y email protected nx n email protected email protected nx n 1y n 2x n 3 email protected n 0 where the sequences a n b n c n a n b n c n email protected n 0 and initial values x i y i email protected 1 2 3 are real numbers such that c n 0 c n 0 email protected n 0 can be solved in closed form and for the case when all the sequences a n b n c n a n b n and c n are constant we describe the asymptotic behavior of well defined solutions of the system

difference equations and nonexistence of solutions of an integral equation abstract by using difference equations we give some easily applicable sufficient conditions for the non existence of nonnegative solutions satisfying some additional conditions of the integral equation f x x a x t b x t f t p d t where p 1 and x is a measurable space with probability measure

on a nonlinear generalized max type difference equation abstract the boundedness character of positive solutions of the following max type difference equation x n max a x n 1 p x n k r n n 0 where k n 1 the parameters a and r are positive and p is a nonnegative real number is studied in this paper our main results considerably improve results appearing in the literature

global stability of a max type difference equation we show that every positive solution to the difference equationx n maxa 1x n p 1 a 1 a 2x n p 2 a 2 a kx n p k a k n n 0 where p i i 1 k are natural numbers such that 1 0 a i 1 1 i 1 k converges to max 1 i ka i 1 a i 1 this result improves and complements the main result in our recent note s stevic global stability of a difference equation with maximum appl math comput 210 2009 525 529 since it also considers the case when a i 1 0 i 1 k

on the recursive sequencexn 1 α xn 1 xn abstract we study the global stability the boundedness character and the periodic nature of the positive solutions of the difference equationxn 1 xn 1 xn where 0 and where the initial conditionsx 1andx0are arbitrary positive real numbers

analysis of an upwind mixed hybrid finite element method for transport problems we prove optimal order convergence of an upwind mixed hybrid finite element scheme for linear parabolic advection diffusion reaction problems it was introduced in radu et al adv water resources 34 2011 pp 47 61 and is based on an euler implicit mixed hybrid finite element discretization of the problem in fully mass conservative form using the raviart thomas mixed finite element of lowest order on triangular meshes optimal order convergence in time and space is obtained for the fully discrete formulation the scheme provides the same order of convergence as the standard upwind mixed method while it is more efficient since a local elimination of variables is possible with our choice of the upwind weights the theoretical findings are sustained by a numerical experiment

on a third order system of difference equations abstract we show that the system of difference equations x n 1 a 1 x n 2 b 1 y n z n 1 x n 2 c 1 y n 1 a 2 y n 2 b 2 z n x n 1 y n 2 c 2 z n 1 a 3 z n 2 b 3 x n y n 1 z n 2 c 3 n n 0 where the parameters a i b i c i i 1 2 3 and initial values x j y j z j j 0 1 2 are real numbers can be solved developing further the results in the literature

on difference equations with powers as solutions and their connection with invariant curves abstract we look for nonlinear systems of difference equations which have power functions as solutions and we find a connection to the theory of invariant curves and to self reversed polynomials in particular we construct algebraic solutions of a special equation of invariant curves

on the solutions of a system of difference equations with maximum in this paper we study the following max type system of difference equations x n max 1 x n m min 1 a y n r y n max 1 y n m min 1 b x n t n n 0 where a b 0 m r t 1 2 with r m and t m we show that every solution of this system with the initial values x d y d x d 1 y d 1 x 1 y 1 0 is eventually periodic with period 2m where d max m r t

on some linear difference equations and inequalities with continuous argument abstract we study some properties of solutions of linear difference equations and inequalities with continuous argument in terms of the location of the zeroes of the characteristic polynomial of the associated homogeneous linear difference equation with constant coefficients