Grove–Ladas non-equilibrium limit conjecture for a max-ratio recurrence

Let A(0,)A\in(0,\infty), and consider a positive solution (xn)(x_n) of the recurrence

xn+1=max{A,xn,xn1}xn2.x_{n+1}=\frac{\max\{A,x_n,x_{n-1}\}}{x_{n-2}}.

A solution is non-equilibrium if it is not an equilibrium solution of this recurrence.

Grove–Ladas conjecture. No positive non-equilibrium solution has a limit; the question is also to extend and generalize this assertion.

This conjecture was proposed by Grove and Ladas and is cited here as a related question for the transformed max-type equation. The statement concerns asymptotic behavior rather than periodicity, and its status is not resolved in the supplied text.

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Antonio Linero Bas and Daniel Nieves Roldán, “Periods of a max-type equation”, arXiv:2111.01651 (2021).

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