Boundedness character of two classes of third-order difference equations(Footnote1

1. The results in the paper were presented at the conference ‘Progress on Difference Equations 2008’ Laufen/Salzach, March 12–17, dedicated to the 65th birthday of Prof. Dr Saber Elaydi.

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