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Limit Superior of a Bounded Sequence of Real Numbers

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Let (an)nN(a_{n})_{n\in\mathbb{N}} be a bounded sequence of real numbers, and for kNk\in\mathbb{N} write

Ak={am  :  mN, mk}.A_{k}=\{a_{m}\;:\;m\in\mathbb{N},\ m\ge k\}.

Let M>0M>0 be a real number with anM|a_{n}|\le M for every nNn\in\mathbb{N}, as provided by the boundedness of the sequence, so that ManM-M\le a_{n}\le M for every nn. Each AkA_{k} is nonempty, since akAka_{k}\in A_{k}, and is bounded above by MM, so it has a least upper bound by Least Upper Bound Property of the Real Numbers, unique by Uniqueness of the Supremum and of the Infimum; and the set {supAk:kN}\{\sup A_{k}:k\in\mathbb{N}\} is nonempty and bounded below, so its infimum exists by Existence of the Infimum of a Nonempty Subset of R\mathbb{R} Bounded Below.

The limit superior of (an)nN(a_{n})_{n\in\mathbb{N}} is

lim supnan=inf{supAk  :  kN}.\limsup_{n}a_{n}=\inf\bigl\{\sup A_{k}\;:\;k\in\mathbb{N}\bigr\}.
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