Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2009
The method of summability with which I shall be concerned here is denoted by (V, α ) and is defined as follows:—The series Σαn is said to be summable (V, α ) to the sum s if
This is a particular case of a method due to Valiron in which μ–2α is replaced by a function of μ.
1 Summability (V, α) is usually defined by means of the limit
The definition which I have given makes for greater compactness throughout the paper.
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