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Convergence of functions

Uniform Convergence

A sequence of functions {$f_n$} can be pointwise convergence to $f$ or uniformly continuous to $f$

If it’s uniformly continuous, it carries over some interesting properties:

  • if $\forall n,f_{n}$ is continuous, then $f$ is also continuous
  • $\lim_{n\rightarrow \infty}\int_{a}^{b}f_{n}dx=\int_{a}^{b}fdx$

series of functions #

The infinite series $\sum\limits u_{n}(x)$ is said to be convergent uniformly if the sequence of partial sums {$f_{n}$} defined by $f_{n}(x)=\sum\limits_{i=1}^{n}u_{i}(x)$ is convergent uniformly on some interval for x

Weierstrass M-test #

Series $\sum\limits u_{n}(x)$ converges uniformly on interval if it satisfies

  1. $|f_{n}|<M_{n}$
  2. $\sum\limits^{\infty} M_{n}$ converges

It can be shown that the partial sums are uniformly convergent utilizing convergence of $M_{n}$ and Uniform Convergence ( Weierstrass M-test - Wikipedia)