Is it Cauchy?

Calculus Level 1

Is the sequence given by a n = 1 n 2 a_n=\frac{1}{n^2} a Cauchy sequence ?

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Samir Khan
Jul 11, 2016

Relevant wiki: Cauchy Sequences

Yes. Consider any ϵ > 0 \epsilon>0 , and take N N so large that N > 2 / ϵ N>\sqrt{2/\epsilon} . Then, 1 n 2 1 m 2 1 n 2 + 1 m 2 ϵ 2 + ϵ 2 = ϵ , \left|\frac{1}{n^2}-\frac{1}{m^2}\right|\leq \frac{1}{n^2}+\frac{1}{m^2}\leq \frac{\epsilon}{2}+\frac{\epsilon}{2}=\epsilon, so this sequence is Cauchy.

In a metric space, each convergent sequence is a Cauchy sequence. In this case, lim n 1 n 2 = 0 \displaystyle \lim_{n\to\infty} \frac{1}{n^2} = 0 . Furthemore, R \mathbb{R} with the usual metric | \cdot| is a Banach space, i.e, is a complete metric space,i.e, a sequence in R \mathbb{R} is a convergent sequence \iff it's a Cauchy sequence

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