Some boundedness results for systems of two rational difference equations

Abstract

We study kth order systems of two rational difference equations $$x_n=\frac{\alpha+\sum^{k}_{i=1}\beta_{i}x_{n-i} + \sum^{k}_{i=1}\gamma_{i}y_{n-i}}{A+\sum^{k}_{j=1}B_{j}x_{n-j} + \sum^{k}_{j=1}C_{j}y_{n-j}},\quad n\in\mathbb{N},$$ $$y_n=\frac{p+\sum^{k}_{i=1}\delta_{i}x_{n-i} + \sum^{k}_{i=1}\epsilon_{i}y_{n-i}}{q+\sum^{k}_{j=1}D_{j}x_{n-j} + \sum^{k}_{j=1}E_{j}y_{n-j}},\quad n\in\mathbb{N}.$$ In particular we assume non-negative parameters and non-negative initial conditions. We develop several approaches which allow us to extend well known boundedness results on the kth order rational difference equation to the setting of systems in certain cases.