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The radius of convergence of ${\sum }_{n\ge 0}{a}_n(z-c{)}^n$ is the unique $R\in [0,\infty ]$ separating interior absolute convergence from exterior divergence. It converges absolutely when $|z-c|<R$ and diverges when $|z-c|>R$. At the centre it always has the finite value $a_0$, since all positive powers vanish. The boundary convergence of a power series is a separate question.

For $0<R<\infty$, the interior is a disk in the complex plane and an open interval $(c-R,c+R)$ on the real line. A power series converges uniformly on every smaller closed disk $|z-c|\le r<R$. This gives stable polynomial approximation over a whole compact region, rather than a separate limiting calculation at each point. See Jiří Lebl, Basic Analysis, §11.3.2: convergence of power series.

Four examples reveal what $R$ measures:

The Cauchy-Hadamard theorem computes $R$ directly from the coefficients. The attractive feature is that one growth statistic decides convergence throughout the interior and exterior, including sparse series with many zero coefficients. Finite changes to the coefficients do not alter the radius, though they can change the sum.

Subspace iteration repeatedly applies a matrix to several independent vectors and orthonormalizes them, converging to a dominant invariant subspace when a spectral gap separates the selected eigenvalue cluster.

Inverse iteration repeatedly solves $(A-sI)y_{k+1}=q_k$ and normalizes. It is the power method for $(A-sI{)}^{-1}$ and converges toward an eigenvector whose eigenvalue is closest to the shift $s$.

For a diagonalizable matrix, the active spectrum consists of eigenvalues whose eigenspaces have nonzero components of the starting vector in its spectral decomposition. These components are orthogonal projections for a self-adjoint operator, but need not be orthogonal projections for a general diagonalizable matrix. With a unique largest modulus in this active spectrum, the power method selects its eigendirection; an exactly absent dominant component is never created in exact arithmetic.

For a real symmetric matrix with $|{\lambda }_1|>|{\lambda }_2|$ and a starting vector having nonzero component in the leading eigendirection, power-method direction errors arewhereas the Rayleigh quotient error isThe improvement occurs because orthogonality cancels terms linear in the direction error.

Shallow-water potential vorticity is materially conserved by inviscid, unforced shallow water equations. Linearizing about rest with depth $H_0$ gives an anomaly proportional to

The second potential slow-roll parameter isSlow roll usually requires both ${ϵ}_V\ll 1$ and $|{\eta }_V|\ll 1$.

If $A=Q\mathrm{diag}({\lambda }_1,\dots ,{\lambda }_n)Q^T$ is real symmetric and positive semidefinite, its principal square root isIt is symmetric and positive semidefinite, and is positive definite exactly when $A$ is.

When $b_j=1$ and $a_j$ are positive integers, adjacent convergents satisfyEven and odd convergents are monotone from opposite sides, their separation is $1/(q_n{q}_{n+1})$, and $q_n\to \infty$. They therefore have a common limit $x$, with

A complex matrix $A$ is Hermitian positive definite when $A^{\ast }=A$ and $z^{\ast }Az>0$ for every nonzero complex vector $z$.

For a real symmetric positive-definite matrix,It measures the sensitivity of the linear system and controls convergence bounds for iterative solvers.

A Hermitian matrix $A$ is a positive-definite matrix exactly when its leading principal minorsare all positive. The leading principal minor uses the first $k$ rows and the first $k$ columns in the same ordering. For the two-by-two Cholesky decomposition example, ${\Delta }_1=4$ and ${\Delta }_2=4\cdot 5-2^2=16$, so the criterion proves positive definiteness without calculating eigenvalues.

The successive pivot elements before taking square roots are ${\Delta }_k/{\Delta }_{k-1}$, with ${\Delta }_0=1$. Here they are $4$ and $16/4=4$. In general, a leading triangular matrix factor has determinant equal to the product of its diagonal entries, soConversely, positive leading principal minors make each successive Schur complement pivot element positive, allowing the Cholesky decomposition to be constructed. The identity $u^{T}Au=\Vert L^{T}u{\Vert }_2^2$ then proves positive definiteness; for complex matrices, replace the transposes by conjugate transposes. This gives a short inductive proof of the criterion.

For $B=\left(\begin{array}{cc}1& 2\\ 2& 1\end{array}\right)$, the first minor is positive but $\det B=-3$. The second Cholesky radicand would be $1-2^2=-3$, and $v=(1,-1{)}^T$ directly gives $v^{T}Bv=-2<0$. Thus positive diagonal entries are insufficient. Replacing “positive” by “nonnegative” in just the leading-minor test is also insufficient for positive semidefiniteness: $\mathrm{diag}(0,-1)$ has leading minors $0,0$, but its quadratic form is negative on $(0,1{)}^T$.

Forset $a=U(t)b$ withThen $b$ evolves under the constant Hamiltonian

The Barenblatt solution is a mass-preserving similarity solution of the porous medium equation. For $u_t=\beta (u{u}_x{)}_x$ in one dimension it has the form

To approximate a piecewise constant function pointwise, exhaust each of its separated regions by compact subsets whose finite union has connected complement. Apply polynomial Runge approximation to the locally constant holomorphic function on each stage, with errors tending to zero. Every fixed point eventually lies in all later stages, so the uniform stagewise estimates imply pointwise convergence.

A proper closed arc $S$ of a circle centered at zero has connected complement and stays away from zero. The polynomial Runge theorem therefore gives polynomials converging uniformly to $1/z$ on $S$.

A regular hyperbolic octagon with opposite sides paired gives a genus-two surface when each angle is $\pi /4$. The eight vertices then form one smooth quotient point because their angles sum to $2\pi$.

Identifying the $2n$ sides of one polygon in pairs gives a cell structure with one face, $n$ edges and some number $V$ of vertex classes. For a closed orientable surface of genus $g$,Since $V\ge 1$, every such schema satisfies $n\ge 2g$.

For a complex sesquilinear form $B$, the values $B(x,x)$ determine $B(x,y)$. In particular, expanding at $x+y$ and $x+iy$ shows that $B(x,x)=0$ for every $x$ implies $B=0$. Over the reals this conclusion can fail for nonsymmetric bilinear forms, as a nonzero skew-symmetric form has zero diagonal.

For an M-M-infinity queue with empty initial state, Poisson arrivals of rate $\lambda$ and exponential lifetimes of rate $\mu$ produce a Poisson occupancy of mean $\lambda (1-e^{-\mu t})/\mu$ at time $t$.