Zentralblatt MATH
Publications of (and about) Paul Erdös
Zbl.No: 367.40005
Autor: Erdös, Paul; Segal, S.L.
Title: A note on Ingham's summation method. (In English)
Source: J. Number Theory 10, 95-98 (1978).
Review: A series \Sigma cn is summable (I) to A if limx > oo 1/x sumn \leq x sumd/ndcd = A. This is a non-regular summation method attributed to A.E.Ingham [J. London Math. Soc. 20, 171-180 (1945; Zbl 061.12802)] although published earlier by A.Wintner [Eratosthenian Avergaes, (1943; Zbl 060.10503)]. G.H.Hardy observed [Divergent Series (1949; Zbl 032.05801)] that if \Sigma cn is (I)-summable then cn = o(log log n). The present paper shows that Hardy's result is best possible by constructing, for any given positive sequence converging to zero, a series \Sigma an which is (I)-summable and for which an/ log log n > 0 more slowly than the given sequence.
Reviewer: J.P.Tull
Classif.: * 40G99 Special methods of summability
11N05 Distribution of primes
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