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We describe a sufficient condition for a finitely generated group to have infinite asymptotic dimension. As an application, we conclude that the first Grigorchuk group has infinite asymptotic dimension.

Consider the following higher order difference equation $$x(n+1)=f(n,x(n\left)\right)+g(n,x(n-k\left)\right),n=0,1,\cdots$$ where $f(n,x)$ and $g(n,x):\{0,1,\cdots \}\times [0,\infty )\to [0,\infty )$ are continuous functions in $x$ and periodic functions in $n$ with period $p$, and $k$ is a nonnegative integer. We show the existence of a periodic solution $\left\{\tilde{x}\left(n\right)\right\}$ under certain conditions, and then establish a sufficient condition for $\left\{\tilde{x}\left(n\right)\right\}$ to be a global attractor of all nonnegative solutions of the equation. Applications to Riccati difference equation and some other difference equations derived from mathematical biology are also given.