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Summability of a series for all possible rearrangements of its terms. The series

(*)

is called unconditionally summable by some summation method (unconditionally -summable) if it is summable by this method to a sum whatever the ordering of its terms, where the value of may depend on the particular rearrangement (cf. Summation methods). The study of unconditional summability originated with W. Orlicz [1]; he showed, in particular, that if , then absolute summability of the series by a linear regular method (cf. Regular summation methods) implies unconditional convergence. It was subsequently shown that this condition may be replaced by a weaker one: [2]. Unconditional summability by a matrix method does not imply unconditional convergence; in fact, take the series . If is a regular matrix summation method and if the series (*) is unconditionally -summable, then all its terms have the form , where is a constant and the series with terms is absolutely convergent: ; moreover, if the method does not sum the series [3].

In the case of series of functions one distinguishes between summability in measure, everywhere summability, almost-everywhere summability, etc. For unconditional summability of a series of functions, the following statement is valid almost-everywhere: If the series of measurable functions on a set is unconditionally -summable almost-everywhere on , then the terms of this series have the form , where is a finite measurable function on and the series is unconditionally almost-everywhere convergent on ; also, if does not sum [2].

References

[1] W. Orlicz, Bull. Acad. Polon. Sci. Sér. Sci. Math., Astr. Phys. : 3A (1927) pp. 117–125
[2] P.L. Ul'yanov, "Unconditional summability" Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR Ser. Mat. , 23 (1959) pp. 781–808 (In Russian)
[3] V.F. Gaposhkin, A.M. Olevskii, Nauchn. Dokl. Vyssh. Shkoly Fiz.-Mat. Nauk. , 6 (1958) pp. 81–86


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References

[a1] K. Zeller, W. Beekmann, "Theorie der Limitierungsverfahren" , Springer (1970)
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Unconditional summability. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Unconditional_summability&oldid=38919
This article was adapted from an original article by I.I. Volkov (originator), which appeared in Encyclopedia of Mathematics - ISBN 1402006098. See original article