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Taking real parts of the geometric sum gives
an​=ℜ1−eiy1−ei(n+1)y​,
(1)
so (an​) is bounded when cosy=1. It cannot converge: convergence would imply cos(ny)=an​−an−1​→0, but then
cos(2ny)=2cos2(ny)−1→−1,
(2)
whereas the same necessary condition applied to the subsequence 2n would give a limit of zero.

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