%0 Journal Article %T Solutions to the recurrence relation u n+1 = v n+1 + u n £¿ v n in terms of Bell polynomials %A Withers %A Christopher S. %A Nadarajah %A Saralees %J Computational & Applied Mathematics %D 2011 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S1807-03022011000300007 %X motivated by time series analysis, we consider the problem of solving the recurrence relation un+1 = vn+1 +un£¿vn for n ¡Ù 0 and un, given the sequence vn. a solution is given as a bell polynomial. when vn can be written as a weighted sum of nth powers, then the solution un also takes this form. mathematical subject classification: 33e99. %K autoregressive processes %K bell polynomials %K convolution %K maximum. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1807-03022011000300007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en