Alexei V. Bourd

Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions of Some Linear Difference Equations with Oscillatory Decreasing Coefficients

We investigate the asymptotic behavior of solutions of the system x ( n +1)=[ A + B ( n ) V ( n )+ R ( n )] x ( n ), n S n 0 , where A is an invertible m 2 m matrix with real eigenvalues, B ( n )= ~ j =1 r B j e i u j n , u j are real and u j p ~ (1+2 M ) for any M ] Z , B j are constant m 2 m matrices, the matrix V ( n ) satisfies V ( n ) M 0 as n M X , ~ n =0 X Á V ( n +1) m V ( n ) Á < X , ~ n =0 X Á V ( n ) Á 2 < X , and ~ n =0 X Á R ( n ) Á < X . If AV ( n )= V ( n ) A , then we show that the original system is asymptotically equivalent to a system x ( n +1)=[ A + B 0 V ( n )+ R 1 ( n )] x ( n ), where B 0 is a constant matrix and ~ n =0 X Á R 1 ( n ) Á < X . From this, it is possible to deduce the asymptotic behavior of solutions as n M X . We illustrate our method by investigating the asymptotic behavior of solutions of x 1 ( n +2) m 2(cos f 1 ) x 1 ( n +1)+ x 1 ( n )+ a sin n f n g x 2 ( n )=0 x 2 ( n +2) m 2(cos f 2 ) x 2 ( n +1)+ x 2 ( n )+ b sin n f n g x 1 ( n )=0 , where 0< f 1 , f 2 < ~ , 1/2< g h 1, f 1 p f 2 , and 0< f <2 ~ .