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ScienceAsia  (): 350-356 |doi: 
						
					10.2306/scienceasia1513-1874...350
  
            
         
          On the dynamics of the nonlinear difference equation xn+1=α+βxn−1+xn−1/xn
         
          Aycan Aksoy, Mehmet Turan*
            
            ABSTRACT:     The boundedness and semi-cycle analysis of positive solutions, existence of period-2 solutions, and local and global asymptotic stability of the recursive sequence xn+1=α+βxn−1+xn−1/xn, n=0,1,... are investigated where α∈[0,∞), β∈[0,1) and the initial conditions x−1 and x0 are arbitrary positive real numbers. The paper concludes with some numerical examples to illustrate the theoretical results. 
          
                    
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              | Atilim University, Department of Mathematics, Incek 06836, Ankara, Turkey | 
                                                                                                             
                        
                        
                        
            
			            
                        
                        
                       
                      * Corresponding author, E-mail: mehmet.turan@atilim.edu.tr 
          Received 18 Feb 2015, Accepted 12 Oct 2015            
         
        
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