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Notes 1 Appendix 2018-19 Infinitely Many Primes

The document discusses two results about infinite products. The first result states that if the product of inverses of terms in a sequence converges, then the original sequence converges. The second result states that if the series of absolute values of terms in a sequence is convergent, then the infinite product of terms of the form 1 + an converges and its limit is non-zero.

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Notes 1 Appendix 2018-19 Infinitely Many Primes

The document discusses two results about infinite products. The first result states that if the product of inverses of terms in a sequence converges, then the original sequence converges. The second result states that if the series of absolute values of terms in a sequence is convergent, then the infinite product of terms of the form 1 + an converges and its limit is non-zero.

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7 Appendix Chapter 1 Infinite Products


Q∞
Q∞ −1 Result 1 If
Unproved n=1 un converges, then the product of inverses,
n=1 un , converges.

Proof Let pn = ni=1 ui so that pn → p with pn 6= 0 for all n ≥ 1 and p 6= 0.


Q
But then by the Quotient
Q∞ −1 Law for Sequences p−1 n → p
−1
with p−1 6= 0. This
is the definition of n=1 un converging. 
P∞
Unproved Result 2 If the series n=1 |an | is convergent (where the an
are real or complex and an 6= −1 for all n, then the infinite product
Q ∞
n=1 (1 + an ) converges in that the limit

N
Y
lim (1 + an )
N →∞
n=1

exists and is non-zero.


Proof Let pn = ni=1 (1 + ai ) for n ≥ 1 and S =
Q P∞
n=1 |an | which, by
assumption, converges.
For the first step use 1 + x ≤ exp (x) for x > 0. Then
n n n
!
Y Y X
|pn | ≤ (1 + |ai |) ≤ exp (|ai |) = exp |ai | ≤ exp (S) , (16)
i=1 i=1 i=1

for all n ≥ 1. Next observe that pn = (1 + an ) pn−1 for n ≥ 2. Consider


n
X n
X
pn − p1 = (pi − pi−1 ) = ai pi−1 . (17)
i=2 i=2

Then
n
X n
X
|ai pi−1 | ≤ |ai | eS by (16)
i=2 i=2

≤ SeS
Pn
Thus the series i=2 ai pi−1 converges (absolutely) and so, by (17) , limn→∞ pn
exists.

Q∞To show that −1


pn converges to a non-zero limit p the trick is to show that
n=1 (1 + an ) converges to q where pq = 1. Then p 6= 0.

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Q∞The idea is to use the same result −1
as above that gave the convergence
P∞ of
n=1 (1 + an ) . So rewrite (1 + an ) = 1+ bn and try to show that n=1 |bn |
converges. But
1 an
bn = −1=− .
1 + an 1 + an
The assumption ∞
P
n=1 |an | converges implies an → 0 so there exists N ≥
1 such that |an | P < 1/2, i.e. |1 + an | ≥ 1/2 and thus |bnP | ≤ 2 |an | for all
n ≥ N . Then n=1 |bn | converges by comparison with ∞
∞
n=1 2 |an |. The
result follows. 

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