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On the Convergence Rate of a Recursively Defined Sequence
Jong-Yi Chena, Yunshyong Chowb a National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
b Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Abstract:
Consider the following recursively defined sequence:
$$
\tau_1 =1,\qquad \sum^n_{j=1} \frac{1}{\sum^n_{s=j}\tau_s}=1\quad \text{for}\quad n\geq 2,
$$
which originates from a heat conduction problem first studied by Myshkis (1997). Chang, Chow, and Wang (2003) proved that
$$
\tau_n = \log n +O(1) \qquad \text{for large}\quad n.
$$
In this note, we refine this result to
$$
\tau_n= \log n + \gamma+O \biggl(\frac{1}{\log n}\biggr).
$$
where $\gamma$ is the Euler constant.
Keywords:
difference equation, heat equation, asymptotic behavior, feedback control.
Received: 29.08.2011
Citation:
Jong-Yi Chen, Yunshyong Chow, “On the Convergence Rate of a Recursively Defined Sequence”, Mat. Zametki, 93:2 (2013), 195–201; Math. Notes, 93:2 (2013), 238–243
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https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/mzm10159https://doi.org/10.4213/mzm10159 https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/mzm/v93/i2/p195
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