Wednesday 19 August 2015

sequences and series - Show that $a_n^{1/n}$ converges as $ntoinfty$

Suppose that a sequence ${a_n : n = 1,2,\cdots}$ real numbers is such that
$a_n\geq 1$ for all $n ≥ 1$ and
$$
a_{n+m}\leq a_na_m\quad \rm{for~ all}~n\geq1, m\geq1.
$$

Show that $a_n^{1/n}$ converges as $n\to\infty$



My solution:
By taking log, we have



$$ \log{a_{n+m}}\leq \log{a_na_m}=\log{a_n}+\log{a_m}\quad \rm{for~ all}~n\geq1, m\geq1.
$$



So we have
\begin{align}

\log{a_2}&\leq \log{a_1}+\log{a_1}=2\log{a_1}
\\
\log{a_3}&\leq \log{a_1}+\log{a_2}\leq3\log{a_1}
\\
\cdots
\\
\log{a_n}&\leq n\log{a_1}
\end{align}
So,
$$

\log{a_n}^{1/n}=\frac{1}{n}\log{a_n}
$$
So I can prove $\log a_n$ is bounded but cannot to prove it's monotonic which can sufficiently lead to $\log a_n$ converges. How to deal with it?



Or if we cannot prove monotonic, how to prove the limit exists?

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