Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2006/ia/paper-1/3f/solution

The series converges to when its partial sums have limit of a sequence : for every , there is such that for all .
Its averages are the Cesàro means of the sequence of partial sums. To prove their convergence, choose with for . Then
The finite first sum divided by tends to zero. This proves the Cesàro theorem for convergent sequences in this setting, and
The converse fails. Take , so for odd and for even . The partial sums do not converge, but
Thus the alternating series is Cesàro summable without having an ordinary sum.

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