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Rearranging absolutely convergent well-ordered series in Banach spaces

Logic 2019-02-26 v1

Abstract

Reordering the terms of a series is a useful mathematical device, and much is known about when it can be done without affecting the convergence or the sum of the series. For example, if a series of real numbers absolutely converges, we can add the even-indexed and odd-indexed terms separately, or arrange the terms in an infinite two-dimensional table and first compute the sum of each column. The possibility of even more intricate re-orderings prompts us to find a general underlying principle. We identify such a principle in the setting of Banach spaces, where we consider well-ordered series with indices beyond {\omega}, but strictly under {\omega}_1 . We prove that for every absolutely convergent well-ordered series indexed by a countable ordinal, if the series is rearranged according to any countable ordinal, then the absolute convergence and the sum of the series remain unchanged.

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@article{arxiv.1902.08846,
  title  = {Rearranging absolutely convergent well-ordered series in Banach spaces},
  author = {Vedran Čačić and Marko Doko and Marko Horvat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.08846},
  year   = {2019}
}