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Stream: Is there code for X?

Topic: Monotone convergence for series


Alex Nguyen (May 03 2025 at 08:02):

Is there a monotone convergence theorem for series or a Fatou's lemma for series in mathlib, something along the lines of: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2616956/monotone-convergence-theorem-for-series-basic-proof
For a sequence xmn0x_{m n} \geq 0 if limmxmn=yn\lim _{m \rightarrow \infty} x_{m n}=y_n (monotonically increasing for mm ) then

limmn=1xmn=n=1limmxmn\lim _{m \rightarrow \infty} \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} x_{m n}=\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \lim _{m \rightarrow \infty} x_{m n}

or Fatou's Lemma for series: If xmnx_{m n} is nonnegative, then

n=1lim infmxmnlim infmn=1xmn\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \liminf _{m \rightarrow \infty} x_{m n} \leqslant \liminf _{m \rightarrow \infty} \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} x_{m n}

It seems like there's a version tendsto_tsum_of_dominated_convergence for dominated convergence, but I couldn't find one for monotone convergence. Thanks in advance !

Antoine Chambert-Loir (May 03 2025 at 19:34):

The monotone convergence theorem is docs#MeasureTheory.tendsto_of_lintegral_tendsto_of_monotone and there does not seem to have a translation for series in the same way that docs#MeasureTheory.hasSum_integral_of_dominated_convergence translates the general theorem for series.


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