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Rearrangement of vector series. II
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 March 2001
Abstract
Let [sum ]∞an denote the set of cluster points of the sequence of partial sums of a series [sum ]an with terms in ℝd. For any permutation f of the set ℕ of positive integers, [Cscr ]f (ℝd) denotes the set of all sets [sum ]∞af(n) arising from series [sum ]an with terms in ℝd and sum 0. For each f, we use the Max-Flow Min-Cut Theorem to determine all convex sets in [Cscr ]f(ℝd) which are symmetric about a point. These sets depend only on a parameter w(f) ∈ ℕ ∪ {0, ∞}, called the width of f. We show that w(f), when it is a positive integer, falls far short of completely determining [Cscr ]f(ℝd) but, for each q ∈ ℕ, we find the largest of the sets [Cscr ]f(ℝd) arising from permutations f of width q. We also describe the smallest of these sets when q = 1.
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- Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 130 , Issue 1 , January 2001 , pp. 111 - 134
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- 2001 Cambridge Philosophical Society
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