Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2001/ia/paper-1/9d/i/solution

Let bound all and put . Then
The geometric series converges, so the comparison test for series proves absolute convergence of . This is the bounded power-series terms force interior absolute convergence principle.
Define the radius of convergence by
allowing and . If , the supremum supplies a point of convergence with ; convergence makes its terms bounded, so the argument above gives absolute convergence at . If , convergence is impossible by definition. At , no general conclusion follows. Thus the convergence region has a circular interior centered at zero, with boundary behavior depending on the power series.

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