We consider the discrete survival red blood cells model (*) $N_{n+1}-Nₙ=-\delta ₙNₙ+Pₙe^{-a{N}_{n-k}}$, where δₙ and Pₙ are positive sequences. In the autonomous case we show that (*) has a unique positive steady state N*, we establish some sufficient conditions for oscillation of all positive solutions about N*, and when k = 1 we give a sufficient condition for N* to be globally asymptotically stable. In the nonatonomous case, assuming that there exists a positive solution Nₙ*, we present necessary and sufficient conditions for oscillation...

Some new oscillation and nonoscillation criteria for the second order neutral delay difference equation $$\Delta \left(c_n\Delta (y_n+p_n{y}_{n-k})\right)+q_n{y}_{n+1-m}^{\beta }=0,n\ge n_0$$ where $k$, $m$ are positive integers and $\beta$ is a ratio of odd positive integers are established, under the condition ${\sum }_{n=n_0}^{\infty }\frac{1}{c_n}<\infty .$

Consider the difference equation $$\Delta x\left(n\right)+\sum _{i=1}^m{p}_i\left(n\right)x\left({\tau }_i\left(n\right)\right)=0,n\ge 0\left[\nabla x\left(n\right)-\sum _{i=1}^m{p}_i\left(n\right)x\left({\sigma }_i\left(n\right)\right)=0,n\ge 1\right],$$ where $\left(p_i\left(n\right)\right)$, $1\le i\le m$ are sequences of nonnegative real numbers, ${\tau }_i\left(n\right)$ [${\sigma }_i\left(n\right)$], $1\le i\le m$ are general retarded (advanced) arguments and $\Delta$ [$\nabla$] denotes the forward (backward) difference operator $\Delta x\left(n\right)=x(n+1)-x\left(n\right)$ [$\nabla x\left(n\right)=x\left(n\right)-x(n-1)$]. New oscillation criteria are established when the well-known oscillation conditions $$\underset{n\to \infty }{lim\; sup}\sum _{i=1}^m\sum _{j=\tau \left(n\right)}^n{p}_i\left(j\right)>1\left[\underset{n\to \infty }{lim\; sup}\sum _{i=1}^m\sum _{j=n}^{\sigma \left(n\right)}{p}_i\left(j\right)>1\right]$$ and $$\underset{n\to \infty }{lim\; inf}\sum _{i=1}^m\sum _{j={\tau }_i\left(n\right)}^{n-1}{p}_i\left(j\right)>\frac{1}{\mathrm{e}}\left[\underset{n\to \infty }{lim\; inf}\sum _{i=1}^m\sum _{j=n+1}^{{\sigma }_i\left(n\right)}{p}_i\left(j\right)>\frac{1}{\mathrm{e}}\right]$$ are not satisfied. Here $\tau \left(n\right)={max}_{1\le i\le m}{\tau }_i\left(n\right)$$[\sigma ...$

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 39A10.The oscillatory and nonoscillatory behaviour of solutions of the second order quasi linear neutral delay difference equation Δ(an | Δ(xn+pnxn-τ)|α-1 Δ(xn+pnxn-τ) + qnf(xn-σ)g(Δxn) = 0 where n ∈ N(n0), α > 0, τ, σ are fixed non negative integers, {an}, {pn}, {qn} are real sequences and f and g real valued continuous functions are studied. Our results generalize and improve some known results of neutral delay difference equations.