On strong generalized Hausdorff summability (Q908449)

The authors continue their investigation of generalized Hausdorff summability methods by considering strong summability. A generalized Hausdorff matrix is given by \[ \lambda_{n,k}=- \lambda_{k+1}...\lambda_ n(1/2\pi i)\int_{\Gamma_ n}f(z)dz/(\lambda_ k-z)...(\lambda_ n-z)+\delta_ k\quad for\quad 0\leq k\leq n, \] \[ \lambda_{n,k}=0\quad for\quad k>n, \] where \(\{\lambda_ n\}\) is a sequence of real numbers with \(\lambda_ 0\geq 0\), \(\inf_{n\geq 1}\lambda_ n>0\), and \(\sum^{\infty}_{n=0}1/\lambda_ n=\infty,\) where, for each \(n\geq 0\), \(\Gamma_ n\) is a positively sensed Jordan contour lying in \(\Omega\) (which is a simply connected region that contains every positive \(\lambda_ n)\) and enclosing every \(\lambda_ n\in \Omega\) with \(0\leq k\leq n\), where f is a function, holomorphic in \(\Omega\) with \(f(\lambda_ 0)\) defined, even when \(\lambda_ 0\not\in \Omega\), and where \(\delta_ k=f(\lambda_ 0)\) if \(k=0\) and \(\lambda_ 0\not\in \Omega\); \(\delta_ k=0\) otherwise. Note that products like \(\lambda_{k+1}...\lambda_ n=1\) when \(k=n.\) If \(\alpha\) is real, then the generalized Hölder matrix is generated from \(f(z)=(z+1)^{-\alpha}\), and for \(\alpha >-1\), the generalized Cesàro matrix is generated by \(f(z)=\Gamma (\alpha +1)\Gamma (z+a)/\Gamma (\alpha +z+1).\) These reduce to the standard Hölder and Cesàro matrices when \(\lambda_ n=n\). Strong summability is generated by two matrices P, Q. For \(\beta >0\), we write \(s_ n\to \sigma [P,Q]_{\beta}\) if \(\sum^{\infty}_{n=0}p_{n,k}| \sum^{\infty}_{j=0}q_{k,j}s_ j-\sigma |^{\beta}\) exists for \(n=0,1,..\). and tends to zero as \(n\to \infty\). The authors prove several theorems concerning strong generalized Hausdorff summability. For example, they show the equivalence of strong Hölder summability with strong Cesàro summability.