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Limits of Sequences of Real Numbers: Uniqueness, Boundedness, Constants, Tails, Arithmetic, Quotients, Absolute Values, Finite Sums, Order, Squeezing, Domination and Subsequences

A sequence of real numbers converges to at most one limit; convergent sequences are bounded, and boundedness means bounded above and below; convergence ignores finitely many terms and index shifts; limits respect sums, multiples, negatives, differences, products, quotients, absolute values, finite sums and inequalities; squeezed and dominated sequences converge; and subsequences converge to the same limit.

Statement

In the setting of The Real Numbers, with the Natural Numbers, Integers and Rationals Identified with Subsets of the Reals, and Completeness, let convergence and null sequences be as in Convergent Sequences of Real Numbers §converges, bounded sequences as in Bounded Sequences of Real Numbers §bounded and subsequences as in Subsequences §subsequence. Let (an)(a_{n}), (bn)(b_{n}) and (cn)(c_{n}) be sequences in R\mathbb{R}, and let A,B,λ,L∈RA,B,\lambda,L\in\mathbb{R} and K∈NK\in\mathbb{N}. In the clauses tails, arithmetic, quotient, absolute, order, squeeze and subsequence, assume an→Aa_{n}\to A, and where BB occurs also bn→Bb_{n}\to B.

The constant sequence (λ)n∈N(\lambda)_{n\in\mathbb{N}} converges to λ\lambda.

If cn→Lc_{n}\to L and cn→L′c_{n}\to L' with L′∈RL'\in\mathbb{R}, then L=L′L=L'.

Every convergent sequence in R\mathbb{R} is bounded.

A sequence in R\mathbb{R} is bounded if and only if it is bounded above and bounded below.

If cn=anc_{n}=a_{n} for every n≥Kn\ge K, then cn→Ac_{n}\to A; and (an+p)n∈N(a_{n+p})_{n\in\mathbb{N}} converges to AA for every p∈Np\in\mathbb{N}.

an+bn→A+Ba_{n}+b_{n}\to A+B, λan→λA\lambda a_{n}\to\lambda A, −an→−A-a_{n}\to-A, an−bn→A−Ba_{n}-b_{n}\to A-B and anbn→ABa_{n}b_{n}\to AB.

If B≠0B\neq0 and bn≠0b_{n}\neq0 for every n∈Nn\in\mathbb{N}, then an/bn→A/Ba_{n}/b_{n}\to A/B.

∣an∣→∣A∣|a_{n}|\to|A|.

Let II be a finite set, d:I×N→Rd:I\times\mathbb{N}\to\mathbb{R} and D:I→RD:I\to\mathbb{R}, i↦Dii\mapsto D_{i}, maps such that (d(i,n))n∈N(d(i,n))_{n\in\mathbb{N}} converges to DiD_{i} for every i∈Ii\in I. Then (∑i∈Id(i,n))n∈N\big(\sum_{i\in I}d(i,n)\big)_{n\in\mathbb{N}} converges to ∑i∈IDi\sum_{i\in I}D_{i}.

If an≤bna_{n}\le b_{n} for every n≥Kn\ge K, then A≤BA\le B. If an≤λa_{n}\le\lambda for every n≥Kn\ge K, then A≤λA\le\lambda, and if λ≤an\lambda\le a_{n} for every n≥Kn\ge K, then λ≤A\lambda\le A.

If A=BA=B and an≤cn≤bna_{n}\le c_{n}\le b_{n} for every n≥Kn\ge K, then cn→Ac_{n}\to A.

If (bn)(b_{n}) is a null sequence and ∣cn−L∣≤bn|c_{n}-L|\le b_{n} for every n≥Kn\ge K, then cn→Lc_{n}\to L.

Every subsequence of (an)(a_{n}) converges to AA.

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