Iterated Powers, Factorials, and Convergence of the Series of Powers over Factorials
lemmaAnalysislem:factorial-power-series-majorant-2026aFactorials 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.
In the setting of The Real Numbers: Standing Notation and Background, let be a real number with . For let denote the factorial of , which by the finite-product definition used there is a real number, and let denote the th power of a real number . 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 be its successor map, and for abbreviate
Then and . Moreover, for every real number and all ,
where denotes the absolute value of . In particular and .
2. (Factorials are positive and nondecreasing)¶ For every one has ; in particular is positive and has a multiplicative inverse in . Moreover for all with .
3. (The exponential majorant)¶ The terms of the series are nonnegative, and that series converges.
4. (The trigonometric majorants)¶ For every ,
Consequently the series
converge.
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