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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society Volume 2007, Article ID 73849, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2007/73849 Research Article Dynamics of a Class of Higher Order Difference Equations ˇ Bratislav D. Iricanin Received 16 October 2007; Revised 11 November 2007; Accepted 29 November 2007 We prove that all positive solutions of the autonomous difference equation xn = αx / (1 +x + f (x , ... ,x )), n ∈ N , where k, m ∈ N, and f is a continuous func- n−k n−k n−1 n−m 0 tion satisfying the condition β min {u , ... , u } ≤ f (u , ... , u ) ≤ β max {u , ... , u } for 1 m 1 m 1 m –– some β ∈ (0,1), converge to the positive equilibrium x = (α − 1)/ (β + 1) if α 1. ˇ Copyright © 2007 Bratislav D. Iricanin. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. Introduction In this paper, we investigate the global stability of positive solutions of the following au- tonomous difference equation: αxn−k xn = , n ∈ N0 := {0,1,2, ...}, (1.1) 1 +xn−k + f xn−1, ... ,xn−m where k, m ∈ N, and f is a continuous function satisfying the condition β min u , ... , u ≤ f u , ... , u ≤ β max u , ... , u (1.2) 1 m 1 m 1 m for some β ∈ (0,1) (the case β = 0 is not of some interest since