Friday, 26 February 2016

calculus - Find the mistake in limxrightarrow1fracsumin=0nftyxnsumin=0nftyxn=1Rightarrow1=frac12



It is obvious that we have:
limx1n=0xnn=0xn=limx11=1.


But let us now write this sum in two ways, let an=xn and bn=x2n+x2n+1 we thus have n=0xn=n=0an=n=0bn. We can write the above limit as:
limx1limNNn=0anNn=0bn=limNlimx1Nn=0anNn=0bn,

where we can swap limits because of the Moore-Osgood Theorem. We now find for the right hand side:

limNlimx1Nn=0anNn=0bn=limNN+12(N+1)=12.

This shows that 1=12 which is clearly incorrect, but I do not see where the error occurs, I guess it is in the step where the Moore-Osgood Theorem is applied where we define fN(x)=Nn=0anNn=0bn.



EDIT: I believe I have found the error, in order to apply the Moore-Osgood Theorem we need uniform convergence from fN(x) to f(x)=n=0ann=0bn but this f is not continuous, therefore we can not apply Dini's theorem to show that pointwise convergence implies uniform convegence.


Answer



In order to use the Moore-Osgood Theorem, you must make sure that (fn)n0 converges uniformly toward f.



i.e.sup[0,1]|fnf|0.




This is not the case here.


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