Tuesday, June 20, 2017

real analysis - Is my proof that limlimitsnto+inftydfracun+1un=1 correct?



I'm doing an exercise where (un) is a numerical sequence which is decreasing and strictily positive.While (un) is a numerical sequence which is decreasing and strictily positive, then (un) is convergent and its limit is positive which we symbolise by l. Assume that l0.



I have to prove that lim. I'm not sure if my proof is correct or not. Can you please check it? Thank you very much!
Please excuse my English. We don't study Maths in English.




Let \varepsilon\in ]0;l[.



So \exists N\in\mathbb{N},\,\forall n\in\mathbb{N},\,n>N\Longrightarrow |u_n-l|<\varepsilon



Let n\in\mathbb{N} such as n>N. We also have n+1>n>N.
Then:



|u_{n+1}-u_n|=|(u_{n+1}-l)-(u_n-l)|\le |u_{n+1}-l|+|u_n-l|<2\varepsilon (1)



And we have |u_n-l|<\varepsilon so $0


Then (1)\times (2) gives:



\left|\dfrac{u_{n+1}}{u_n}-1\right|<\dfrac{2\varepsilon}{l-\varepsilon}



We put \varepsilon '=\dfrac{2\varepsilon}{l-\varepsilon}>0. Then \varepsilon=\dfrac{l\varepsilon '}{2+\varepsilon '}>0.



While \varepsilon '>0 then \dfrac{\varepsilon '}{2+\varepsilon '}<1 and because l>0 we have then $\varepsilon=\dfrac{l\varepsilon '}{2+\varepsilon '}

And so \forall\varepsilon '\in\mathbb{R}^{+*},\,\exists\varepsilon\in ]0,l[,\,\varepsilon=\dfrac{l\varepsilon '}{2+\varepsilon '} and so \varepsilon ' covers \mathbb{R}^{+*} where \mathbb{R}^{+*} is the set of strictly positive real numbers. As a result we have then:\forall\varepsilon '\in\mathbb{R}^{+*},\,\exists N\in\mathbb{N},\,\forall n\in\mathbb{N},\, n>N\Longrightarrow\left|\dfrac{u_{n+1}}{u_n}-1\right| <\varepsilon '




And so \lim\limits_{n\to +\infty}\dfrac{u_{n+1}}{u_n}=1



Edit: \mathbb{R}^{+*} is the set of strictly positive real numbers.



Edit2: Assume that l\ne 0.


Answer



As an exercise, we give a detailed argument directly from the definition. Suppose that the sequence (u_n) has limit a\gt 0. We want to show that for any \epsilon\gt 0, there is an N such that
1-\epsilon\lt \frac{u_{n+1}}{u_n}\le 1\tag{1}
if n\gt N. Note that

\frac{u_{n+1}}{u_n}\ge \frac{a}{u_n}, so it suffices to make \frac{a}{u_n}\gt 1-\epsilon. This will be the case automatically if \epsilon\ge 1, so we may suppose that \epsilon\lt 1.



For 0\lt \epsilon\lt 1 we have
\frac{a}{u_n}\gt 1-\epsilon \quad\text{iff}\quad u_n \lt \frac{a}{1-\epsilon} \quad\text{iff}\quad u_n-a\lt \frac{a\epsilon}{1-\epsilon}.



Since the sequence (u_n) converges to a, there is an N such that if n\gt N, then u_n-a\lt \frac{a\epsilon}{1-\epsilon}. For any such n, Inequality (1) will hold.



Remark: Informally, this is simpler than it looks. We can scale the sequence (u_n) so that it has limit 1. That does not change ratios.


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