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A generalization of Abel summability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

B. Kuttner
B. Kuttner
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Christ's College
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The Abel sum of the series can be written in the form

where

This suggests that we should define the “Abel limit”, as u → ∞, of any function A(u) as being given by the expression (1) whenever this exists. We shall, however, in this paper, restrict ourselves to functions A(u) which are bounded in any finite interval. Since we are concerned only with the behaviour of A(u) as u → ∞, this does not involve any serious loss of generality, while we avoid difficulties arising from the divergence of integrals at finite points. We note that the expression (1) can be written in the form

where

A1(u) may conveniently be described as the “Abel transform” of A(u).

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , December 1936 , pp. 541 - 559
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1936

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* A (0) (u) is taken to mean A (u).

† The idea of combining Abel and Cesàro summability is not new. See, e.g. Lord, R. D., “On some relations between the Abel, Borel and Cesàro methods of summation”, Proc. London Math. Soc. (2), 38 (1935), 241–56.CrossRefGoogle Scholar In the definition there given, the Cesàro means are first formed, and then the Abel transform taken, instead of these processes being carried out in the reverse order, as here. But see § 2.2 of Lord's paper.

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* A simpler proof of this result is possible when κ ≥ 1, since we then have

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the result stated by Wiener is not quite equivalent to the result stated here, but only trivial modifications of the proof are needed.

* is the Cesàro mean of order κ of the series whereas B (κ) (u) is evidently the Riesz mean.

† We require the result that, if then A 1 (u) is slowly decreasing, but the proof of this result presents no difficulty; in fact, the hypothesis implies that

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† is taken to mean K r (z).

* We use a dash to denote the differential coefficient of a function with respect to its argument.

* This method of summability is more often termed summability (A, λ), but such a nomenclature would obviously lead to confusion in the present paper.

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† c is used to denote a constant; it may be a different constant at each occurrence.

* Wiener, loc. cit. (Theorem XXII).

† I am indebted to Prof. Hardy for suggesting this argument.

* It follows from (27) that the integral converges, except when t = 1.