Friday, 29 March 2013

calculus - Limit mathoplimlimitsntoinftyfracnleft(a1...anright)frac1na1+...+an



Evaluate the following limit.
ai>0.iN.




lim



I tried to use the Stolz-Cesaro Theorem which I thought might feet here. I got this expression:



\mathop {\lim }\limits_{n \to \infty } \frac{{(n + 1){{\left( {{a_1}...{a_{n + 1}}} \right)}^{\frac{1}{{n + 1}}}} - n{{\left( {{a_1}...{a_n}} \right)}^{\frac{1}{n}}}}}{{{a_{n + 1}}}}



Which looked a little promising, but I don't know how to take it from here.


Answer



I believe the limit can be anything between 0 and 1.




Taking a_n=1 for all n clearly yields the limit of 1.



On the other hand, if you take a_n=\cases{1&$\text{ if }$ n$\neq 2^k$\\ \frac1n&\text{ else}},
You can prove that the limit of \frac{a_1+\dots+a_n}{n} is still 1 (it would be 1 even if you replaced every 2^k-th value with 0), while the limit of \sqrt[n]{a_1a_2\cdots a_n} = 0,
meaning the total limit is 0.


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