Paper 1, Section II, E

Analysis I | Part IA, 2018

State and prove the Comparison Test for real series.

Assume 0xn<10 \leqslant x_{n}<1 for all nNn \in \mathbb{N}. Show that if xn\sum x_{n} converges, then so do xn2\sum x_{n}^{2} and xn1xn\sum \frac{x_{n}}{1-x_{n}}. In each case, does the converse hold? Justify your answers.

Let (xn)\left(x_{n}\right) be a decreasing sequence of positive reals. Show that if xn\sum x_{n} converges, then nxn0n x_{n} \rightarrow 0 as nn \rightarrow \infty. Does the converse hold? If xn\sum x_{n} converges, must it be the case that (nlogn)xn0(n \log n) x_{n} \rightarrow 0 as nn \rightarrow \infty ? Justify your answers.

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