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IJMMS 27:2 (2001) 69–76 PII. S0161171201006172 © Hindawi Publishing Corp. ASYMPTOTIC DECAY OF NONOSCILLATORY SOLUTIONS OF GENERAL NONLINEAR DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS E. THANDAPANI, S. LOURDU MARIAN, and JOHN R. GRAEF (Received 10 November 2000) Abstract. The authors consider the mth order nonlinear difference equations of the form Dmyn +qnf (y ) = e , where m ≥ 1, n ∈ N = {0, 1, 2,... }, ai 0 for i = 1, 2,...,m − 1, σ (n) i n m i a ≡ 1, D0yn = yn , D yn = a ∆D yn , i = 1, 2,...,m, σ (n) → ∞ as n → ∞, and n i n i−1 f : R → R is continuous with uf (u) 0 for u = 0. They give sufficient conditions to ensure that all bounded nonoscillatory solutions tend to zero as n → ∞ without assuming that ∞ 1/ai = ∞, i = 1, 2,...,m − 1, {qn } is positive, or en ≡ 0 as is often required. If n=0 n {qn } is positive, they prove another such result for all nonoscillatory solutions. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. 39A10. 1. Introduction. Consider the mth order nonlinear difference equation D myn +qnf yσ (n) = ei , (1.1) where m ≥ 1, n ∈ N = {0, 1, 2,...}, {qn }, {en }, and {a1 }, {a2 }, ... , {am−1 } are real n n n sequences, ai 0 for i = 1, 2,...,m − 1 and all n ∈ N, am ≡ 1, D y = y , D y = n n 0 n n i n i an ∆Di−1yn for i = 1, 2,...,m, {σ (n)} is a sequence of positive integers with σ (n) → ∞ as n → ∞, and f : R → R is co