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Sum of a Sequence in [0,∞]

The sum of a sequence in [0,∞] is the supremum of its partial sums, formed with the sum of [0,∞]; it always exists in [0,∞].

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In the setting of Routine Facts Used Without Citation: Arithmetic, Maps, Predicativity and Indices, let [0,∞][0,\infty] be as in The Extended Real Line, Its Order, and [0,∞] (ii), its sum ++ as in Addition and Multiplication on [0,∞] (i), and suprema in [−∞,∞][-\infty,\infty], for its order of The Extended Real Line, Its Order, and [0,∞] (iii), as in Order and Suprema in the Extended Real Line (iii). Let (ak)(a_{k}) be a sequence in [0,∞][0,\infty].

For n∈Nn\in\mathbb{N}, the nn-th partial sum of (ak)(a_{k}) is the iterated operation sn=∑k=1naks_{n}=\sum_{k=1}^{n}a_{k} of ++ on [0,∞][0,\infty], as in Iterated Operations: Finite Sums and Finite Products (ii) and Iterated Operations: Finite Sums and Finite Products (iii). As ++ is a binary operation on [0,∞][0,\infty], (sn)(s_{n}) is a sequence in [0,∞][0,\infty], the map n↦snn\mapsto s_{n} on N\mathbb{N} existing by Maps Given by Iterated Operations: Partial Iterates, Images of Natural Numbers, Powers and Operations over a Finite Set (i).

The sum of (ak)(a_{k}) is

∑k∈Nak=sup⁡{sn:n∈N},\sum_{k\in\mathbb{N}}a_{k}=\sup\{s_{n}:n\in\mathbb{N}\},

which exists by Order and Suprema in the Extended Real Line (iii) and lies in [0,∞][0,\infty] by Order and Suprema in the Extended Real Line (ix), the set of the partial sums being a nonempty subset of [0,∞][0,\infty]. For an expression t(k)t(k) with t(k)∈[0,∞]t(k)\in[0,\infty] for every k∈Nk\in\mathbb{N}, ∑k∈Nt(k)\sum_{k\in\mathbb{N}}t(k) is the sum of the sequence k↦t(k)k\mapsto t(k).

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