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We present discrete analogues of Taylor’s formula, 1’Hospital’s rule, Kneser’s theorem etc., and use these to study qualitative properties of solutions of higher order difference equations. The proofs are based on some simple inequalities.
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Agarwal, R.P. (1984). Difference Calculus with Applications to Difference Equations. In: Walter, W. (eds) General Inequalities 4. International Series of Numerical Mathematics / Internationale Schriftenreihe zur Numerischen Mathematik / Série Internationale D’Analyse Numérique, vol 71. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-6259-2_10
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