Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2023/ii/paper-2/32e/b/solution

No. Let and, for , define
while
Both families are asymptotic sequences, and for every .
Take . It has the exact expansion
Suppose it had an expansion . The order-zero condition forces . At order one we would then require some constant such that
After division by , the left side is , which cannot tend to zero. This contradiction proves that no such coefficients exist. Thus termwise equivalent asymptotic scales need not preserve expansions.

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