Completeness of ordered fields and a trio of classical series tests

DOI10.1155/2016/6023273MaRDI QIDQ1669251zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Robert Kantrowitz, Michael M. Neumann

Publication date 30 August 2018

Published in Abstract and Applied Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/6023273

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordered fields (12J15) Convergence and divergence of series and sequences (40A05) Sequence spaces (including Köthe sequence spaces) (46A45)

Review text

Summary: This article explores the fate of the infinite series tests of Dirichlet, Dedekind, and Abel in the context of an arbitrary ordered field. It is shown that each of these three tests characterizes the Dedekind completeness of an Archimedean ordered field; specifically, none of the three is valid in any proper subfield of \(\mathbb{R}\). The argument hinges on a contractive-type property for sequences in Archimedean ordered fields that are bounded and strictly increasing. For an arbitrary ordered field, it turns out that each of the tests of Dirichlet and Dedekind is equivalent to the sequential completeness of the field.

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