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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Abstract and Applied Analysis Volume 2012, Article ID 764351, 12 pages doi:10.1155/2012/764351 Research Article Asymptotic Upper and Lower Estimates of a Class of Positive Solutions of a Discrete Linear Equation with a Single Delay ´ 1, 2 ˇ ´ 2 J. Diblık and I. Hlavickova 1 Department of Mathematics and Descriptive Geometry, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Brno University of Technology, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic 2 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Brno University of Technology, 616 00 Brno, Czech Republic Correspondence should be addressed to J. Diblık, diblik@feec.vutbr.cz ´ Received 20 February 2012; Accepted 1 March 2012 Academic Editor: Elena Braverman Copyright q 2012 J. Diblık and I. Hlavickova. This is an open access article distributed under ´ ˇ ´ the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We study a frequently investigated class of linear difference equations Δv n −p nv n − k with a positive coefficient p n and a single delay k. Recently, it was proved that if the function p n is bounded above by a certain function, then there exists a positive vanishing solution of the considered equation, and the upper bound was found. Here we improve this result by finding even the lower bound for the positive solution, supposing the function p n is bounded above and below by certain functions. 1. Introduction Throughout this paper, we use the following notation: for an integer q, we define