Global attractivity of a higher order nonlinear difference equation with unimodal terms

In the present paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of the following higher order nonlinear difference equation with unimodal terms x(n + 1) = ax(n) + bx(n)g(x(n)) + cx(n − k)g(x(n − k)), n = 0, 1, . . . , where a, b and c are constants with 0 < a < 1, 0 ≤ b < 1, 0 ≤ c < 1 and a + b + c = 1, g ∈ C[[0,∞), [0,∞)] is decreasing, and k is a positive integer. We obtain some new sufficient conditions for the global attractivity of positive solutions of the equation. Applications to some population models are also given.