Preface List of Symbols Dynamics of First-Order Difference Equations Linear Difference Equations of Higher Order. Systems of Linear Difference Equations Stability Theory Higher Order Scalar Difference Equations The Z-Transform Method and Volterra Difference Equations Oscillation Theory Asymptotic Behavior of Difference Equations Applications to Continued Fractions and Orthogonal Polynomials Control Theory Answers and Hints to Selected Problems
Appendix A: Stability of Nonhyperbolic Fixed Points of Maps on the Real Line Vandermonde Matrix Stability of Nondifferentiable Maps Stable Manifold and Hartman-Grobman-Cushing Theorems Levin-May Theorem Classical Orthogonal Polynomials Identities and Formulas