In mathematics, the Cauchy–Hadamard theorem is a result in complex analysis named after the French mathematicians Augustin Louis Cauchy and Jacques Hadamard, describing the radius of convergence of a power series. It was published in 1821 by Cauchy,. but remained relatively unknown until Hadamard rediscovered it.. Translated from the Italian by Warren Van Egmond. Hadamard's first publication of this result was in 1888;. he also included it as part of his 1892 Ph.D. thesis.. Also in Thèses présentées à la faculté des sciences de Paris pour obtenir le grade de docteur ès sciences mathématiques, Paris: Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1892.
Theorem for one complex variable Consider the formal power series in one complex variable z of the form
where
Then the radius of convergence of f at the point a is given by
where denotes the limit superior, the limit as approaches infinity of the supremum of the sequence values after the nth position. If the sequence values is unbounded so that the is ∞, then the power series does not converge near , while if the is 0 then the radius of convergence is ∞, meaning that the series converges on the entire plane.
Proof Without loss of generality assume that . We will show first that the power series converges for , and then that it diverges for .
First suppose . Let not be or For any , there exists only a finite number of such that . Now for all but a finite number of , so the series converges if . This proves the first part.
Conversely, for , for infinitely many , so if , we see that the series cannot converge because its nth term does not tend to 0. Graduate Texts in Mathematics
Theorem for several complex variables Let be an n-dimensional vector of natural numbers () with , then converges with radius of convergence , if and only if
of the multidimensional power series
Proof From
Set Then
This is a power series in one variable which converges for and diverges for . Therefore, by the Cauchy–Hadamard theorem for one variable
Setting gives us an estimate
Because as
Therefore
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