Infinite combinatorics and the foundations of regular variation

DOI10.1016/J.JMAA.2009.04.061MaRDI QIDQ1034572zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors N. H. Bingham, A. J. Ostaszewski

Publication date 6 November 2009

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmaa.2009.04.061

zbMATH Keywords

no trumps principles slowly varying functions uniform convergence theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rate of growth of functions, orders of infinity, slowly varying functions (26A12)

Review text

The `uniform convergence theorem' is a statement that the pointwise convergence \(h(x+t)-h(x)\to 0\) for \(x\to\infty\) (slowly varying \(h:\mathbb R\to\mathbb R\) in the additive formulation) implies the locally uniform convergence. The validity of this statement is shown to be equivalent to a combinatorial principle saying that for every \(\epsilon>0\), \(x_n\to\infty\), and bounded sequence \((u_n)\), some shift of \(\bigcap_{n=k}^\infty \{t:|h(t+x_n)-h(x_n)|<\epsilon\}\) for some \(k\) contains a subsequence of \((u_n)\). The combinatorial principle was extracted from a close reading of the standard treatment of uniform convergence theorem in the monograph by [\textit{N. H. Bingham, C. M. Goldi} and \textit{J. L. Teugels}, Regular Variation. Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its applications, Vol. 27. Cambridge etc.: Cambridge University Press (1987; Zbl 0617.26001)], as the authors say. It covers and unifies the cases of functions having the Baire property and Lebesgue measurable functions, when the uniform convergence statement holds. This solves a problem posed in the above mentioned monograph. Some other combinatorial principles are also shown to be equivalent, e.g., \(\lim_{n\to\infty} h(t_n+x_n)-h(x_n)=0\) for \((t_n)\) bounded and \(x_n\to \infty\).

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