On a Competitive System of Rational Difference Equations

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the global stability and the rate of convergence of positive solutions that converge to the equilibrium point of the system of difference equations in the modeling competitive populations in the form $$ x_{n+1}^{(1)}=\frac{\alpha x_{n-2}^{(1)}}{\beta +\gamma \prod\limits_{i=0}^{2}x_{n-i}^{(2)}},\text{ }x_{n+1}^{(2)}=\frac{\alpha _{1}x_{n-2}^{(2)}}{\beta _{1}+\gamma _{1}\prod\limits_{i=0}^{2}x_{n-i}^{(1)} }\text{, }n=0,1,... $$ where the parameters $\alpha ,\beta ,\gamma ,\alpha _{1},\beta _{1},\gamma _{1}$ are positive numbers and the initial conditions $ x_{-i}^{(1)},x_{-i}^{(2)}$ are arbitrary non-negative numbers for $i\in \{0,1,2\}$.