A new class of numerical sequences and its applications to sine and cosine series (Q1410402)

The author considers several classical results of convergence and integrability of trigonometric series valid for monotone sequences of coefficients. These results are known to be valid for quasi-monotone sequences as well. It is proved that they are also true for a new class of sequences, which trivially contains the one of monotone sequences: this is the class of sequences of rest bounded variation: a sequence \((c_n)\) of positive numbers, tending to zero, is said to be of rest bounded variation if there exists a constant \(K\) such that for every integer \(m\), \[ \sum_{n=m}^\infty|c_n-c_{n+1}|\leq Kc_m. \] The striking point of the paper is the fact that this new class is not comparable to the one of quasi-monotone sequences.