Completeness of Ordered Fields and a Trio of Classical Series Tests

This article explores the fate of the infinite series tests of Dirichlet, Dedekind, and Abel in the context of an arbitrary ordered field. It is shown that each of these three tests characterizes the Dedekind completeness of an Archimedean ordered field; specifically, none of the three is valid in a...

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Main Authors: Robert Kantrowitz, Michael M. Neumann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2016-01-01
Series:Abstract and Applied Analysis
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/6023273
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