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Iterated Powers, Factorials, and Convergence of the Series of Powers over Factorials

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Reason: New: the two power identities the corpus lacked (iterated powers and absolute values of powers), positivity and monotonicity of factorials, convergence of the series of powers over factorials, and the even and odd majorants that dominate the cosine and sine series. · 2,000 chars · 7 deps · depth 12

Factorials are positive and nondecreasing, the series of powers of a nonnegative real number divided by factorials converges, and it dominates the two series of even and odd order that define cosine and sine.

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In the setting of The Real Numbers: Standing Notation and Background, let AA be a real number with 0A0\le A. For kNk\in\mathbb{N} let k!k! denote the factorial of kk, which by the finite-product definition used there is a real number, and let cnc^{n} denote the nnth power of a real number cc. Convergence of a series of real numbers and its sum are as defined there. Then the following hold.

1. (Doubling, iterated powers, and absolute values) Let the multiplication of the natural numbers be that of clauses 3 and 4 of that definition, let SS be its successor map, and for kNk\in\mathbb{N} abbreviate

2k=k2,2k+1=S(k2).2k=k\cdot 2,\qquad 2k+1=S(k\cdot 2).

Then 2k=k+k2k=k+k and k<2kk<2k. Moreover, for every real number cc and all m,nNm,n\in\mathbb{N},

cmn=(cm)n,cn=cn,c^{\,m\cdot n}=\bigl(c^{m}\bigr)^{n}, \qquad \bigl|c^{n}\bigr|=|c|^{n},

where t|t| denotes the absolute value of tRt\in\mathbb{R}. In particular (c)2n=c2n(-c)^{2n}=c^{2n} and (c)2n+1=c2n+1(-c)^{2n+1}=-c^{2n+1}.

2. (Factorials are positive and nondecreasing) For every kNk\in\mathbb{N} one has 1k!1\le k!; in particular k!k! is positive and has a multiplicative inverse in R\mathbb{R}. Moreover m!n!m!\le n! for all m,nNm,n\in\mathbb{N} with mnm\le n.

3. (The exponential majorant) The terms of the series k=1Akk!\sum_{k=1}^{\infty}\dfrac{A^{k}}{k!} are nonnegative, and that series converges.

4. (The trigonometric majorants) For every kNk\in\mathbb{N},

0A2k(2k)!(A2)kk!,0A2k+1(2k+1)!A(A2)kk!.0\le\frac{A^{2k}}{(2k)!}\le\frac{(A^{2})^{k}}{k!}, \qquad 0\le\frac{A^{2k+1}}{(2k+1)!}\le A\cdot\frac{(A^{2})^{k}}{k!} .

Consequently the series

k=1A2k(2k)!andk=1A2k+1(2k+1)!\sum_{k=1}^{\infty}\frac{A^{2k}}{(2k)!} \qquad\text{and}\qquad \sum_{k=1}^{\infty}\frac{A^{2k+1}}{(2k+1)!}

converge.

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