Monday, 9 January 2017

If the positive series suman diverges and sn=sumlimitskleqslantnak then sumfracansn diverges as well



So I've been trying to figure out how to prove the following.




Let (an) be a sequence of positive numbers such that n=1an=, and define sn=ni=1ai. Then n=1ansn= as well.




I can prove it by comparing it to 11xdx if the sequence an is bounded by some M, but that's as far as I've been able to get.



Answer



Since sn+ when n, for each n1 there exists some finite m>n such that sm2sn. In particular, mk=n+1akskmk=n+1aksm=1snsm1/2. Thus, the rests of the series kaksk do not converge to zero, QED.


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