Tuesday, 12 July 2016

number theory - limntoinftyleft(sumnk=1kkright)/nn=1?



I'm interested in the following sum Sn.
Sn:=nk=1kk=11+22+33++nn.



Letting Tn:=Sn/nn, wolfram tells us the followings.
T5=1.09216,T101.04051,T301.01263,T601.00622.




Then, here is my expectation.



My expectation:
limnTn=1.



It seems obvious, so I've tried to prove this, but I'm facing difficulty. Then, here is my question.



Question: Could you show me how to find limnTn if it exists?


Answer



Let n3. Look at the top. The sum of the terms up to and including (n2)n2 is (n2)(n2)n2. The next term is (n1)n1 and the last is of course nn.




So our ratio is >1 and less than
(n2)(n2)n2nn+(n1)n1nn+1.
The limit of each of the first two terms of (1) is 0. For the first term is less than nnn2nn=1n and the second is also <1n.



The result now follows by Squeezing.


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