Some properties of rapidly varying sequences (Q860668)

Following the definition of the class of rapidly varying functions, denoted by \({\mathbb R}_{\infty ,f}\) [\textit{N. H. Bingham, C. M. Goldie} and \textit{J. L. Teugels}, ``Regular variation'' (1987; Zbl 0617.26001), \S\, 2.4], the authors define the class of rapidly varying sequences, denoted by \({\mathbb R}_{\infty ,s}\) as follows: A sequence \((c_{n})\) of positive numbers is said to be rapidly varying if \[ \lim _{n\rightarrow \infty } \frac{c_{[\lambda n]}}{c_{n}} = 0 \quad \text{for \; every} \quad 0<\lambda < 1 . \] It is proved that the following two statements are equivalent: (a) \((c_{n})\in {\mathbb R}_{\infty ,s}\), (b) for \(x\geq 1\), \(f(x) = c_{[x]}\in {\mathbb R}_{\infty ,f}\). A sketchy proof of a simpler (as formulated) version of this result is given earlier by the first and the third author [Math. Morav. 8, No. 2, 1-3 (2004; Zbl 1105.26001)]. In addition, the authors prove several properties of rapidly varying sequences, in particular the ones relating these to some selection principles with consequences in game theory and to the Ramsey theory. This reflects some previous investigations of the second author [e.g., ``Selected results on selection principles''. Proc. 3rd Seminar on Geometry and Topology, Tabriz, Iran, 2004, 71--104).