Here , so grows exponentially rather than decaying. The positive terms do not tend to zero; indeed they tend to . Therefore the series diverges by the necessary condition that the terms of a convergent series tend to zero.
The ratio test gives the same conclusion: .
There is an indexing defect in the original PDF: the term at is undefined because . Thus the series as literally indexed is not defined. The natural finite-index repair is to start at , and that repaired series still diverges.
Indeed, for the terms are positive and
They eventually increase at a geometric rate and do not tend to zero. Since the terms of a convergent series tend to zero, no choice of a finite replacement for the missing first term could make the tail converge.