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Reordering a conditional basis expansion can destroy convergence

Statement refuted

Every rearrangement of every convergent Schauder basis expansion converges.

Facts & Assumptions

[L1]

For n1, let sn have n initial coordinates equal to one and all remaining coordinates equal to zero. Then (sn) is a conditional Schauder basis of c0 (The summing basis of c0 is conditional).

[L2]

Convergence of every rearrangement is equivalent to unconditional convergence (Equivalent forms of unconditional convergence).

Counterexample

technique · counterexample

Given: The objects and hypotheses in the Statement.

1.1

Put x=(xk)k0 with xk=(1)k/(k+1), and for n1 put

givenL1

an=xn1xn=(1)n1(1n+1n+1),yn=ansn.

For N>k, the kth coordinate of n=1Nyn is n=k+1Nan=xkxN. Hence

xn=1Nynmax{xN,supkNxk}0.

Thus the original fixed-order series converges to x. [L1, telescoping]

2.1

The odd-indexed terms have positive first coordinate an, whose sum [given, step 1.1] diverges, while the even-indexed terms have negative first coordinate and the sum of their absolute first coordinates diverges. Also yn=an0. Starting at zero, take consecutive unused odd terms until the first coordinate exceeds 1, then consecutive unused even terms until it is below 0, and repeat. Each stage ends after finitely many terms because the corresponding signed tail diverges.

step 1.1divergence of the harmonic series
3.1

Infinitely many stages of each parity occur, and each stage consumes at [given, L2, step 2.1] least one term in that parity's original order. Consequently every odd and every even term is eventually used exactly once, so the procedure defines a permutation of N1. The first coordinates of its partial sums exceed 1 and fall below 0 infinitely often, so the rearranged vector series diverges. Step 1.1 gives convergence in the original order, thereby refuting the statement and, consistently with [L2], witnessing failure of unconditional convergence.

L2steps 1.12.1

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