Journal of Inequalities and Applications 
Volume 2007 (2007), Article ID 19618, 9 pages
doi:10.1155/2007/19618
Research Article

A Part-Metric-Related Inequality Chain and Application to the Stability Analysis of Difference Equation

Xiaofan Yang, Maobin Yang, and Huaiyi Liu

College of Computer Science, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China

Received 8 October 2006; Revised 13 December 2006; Accepted 14 December 2006

Recommended by Panayiotis D. Siafarikas

Abstract

We find a new part-metric-related inequality of the form min{ai,1/ai:1i5}((1+w)a1a2a3+a4+a5)/(a1a2+a1a3+a2a3+wa4a5)max{ai,1/ai:1i5}, where 1w2. We then apply this result to show that c^=1 is a globally asymptotically stable equilibrium of the rational difference equation xn=(xn1+xn2+(1+w)xn3xn4xn5)/(wxn1xn2+xn3xn4+xn3xn5+xn4xn5), n=1,2,,a0,a1,a2,a3,a4>0.