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

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

xn+1=max⁡{A,xn,xn−1}xn−2.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.

References

Primary source

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

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