@Article{Yankson2021, author = "Yankson, Ernest", title = "Exponential stability results for variable delay difference equations", journal = "Opuscula Math.", year = "2021", volume = "41", number = "1", pages = "145--155", doi = "https://doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2021.41.1.145", url = "https://doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2021.41.1.145", abstract = "Sufficient conditions that guarantee exponential decay to zero of the variable delay difference equation \[x(n+1)=a(n)x(n)+b(n)x(n-g(n))\] are obtained. These sufficient conditions are deduced via inequalities by employing Lyapunov functionals. In addition, a criterion for the instability of the zero solution is established. The results in the paper generalizes some results in the literature.", keywords = "exponential stability, Lyapunov functional, instability", issn = "1232-9274" }