Thursday, October 8, 2015

analysis - Showing that sumfraclognnx converges for x>1



I'm trying to show that lognnx converges for x>1 by the ratio test. Here's what I've got so far an+1an=log(n+1)nx(n+1)xlogn


=(nn+1)xlog(n+1)logn
but I can't see how to manipulate the log(n+1)logn term to make this congerge to a limit less than 1, can anyone help?


Answer



The reason you can't do that is because the limit of those terms is 1, so the ratio test won't work here. Instead, note that f(t)=logttx is eventually decreasing, since f(t)=1xlogttx+1. Then either the integral test or Cauchy condensation will finish this off.


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