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The square roots diverge to
Example
Let denote the unique nonnegative square root of the canonical natural (Square roots exist: a unique with ; the positives are ). Then diverges to (Divergence to and to ): it is unbounded, hence not convergent (Every convergent sequence is bounded). The proof is the Archimedean comparison ; it uses only that is Archimedean (Every complete ordered field is Archimedean) and that squaring is monotone on the nonnegatives (Squaring is monotone on the nonnegatives).
Facts & Assumptions
Given: For every natural the canonical natural , written , and the real (Sequences of reals: bounded, eventually, frequently, tails, subsequences, Canonical naturals are positive and strictly increasing).
Divergence to : means that for every real there is with for all (Divergence to and to ).
Archimedean property: for every real there is a natural number with (Every complete ordered field is Archimedean).
Canonical naturals: and for ; the map is strictly increasing, hence preserves non-strict order, on ; so the real is nonnegative for every natural (The unique embedding of ℚ into an ordered field, Canonical naturals are positive and strictly increasing).
Square roots: every real has a unique with , written (Square roots exist: a unique with ; the positives are ).
Monotonicity of squaring on nonnegatives: for , (Squaring is monotone on the nonnegatives).
Trichotomy and order arithmetic: for all reals exactly one of , , holds, and implies (Ordered field, Order on the reals).
A sequence converging to a real is bounded, so a sequence that diverges to — being unbounded, since it eventually exceeds every real bound — is not convergent (Every convergent sequence is bounded, Divergence to and to , Sequences of reals: bounded, eventually, frequently, tails, subsequences).
Verification
For every natural the real is nonnegative by [F3], so [F4] applies: is defined with and .
First case, : by step 1.1, for every , so for all and the threshold witnesses the condition of [F1] for this .
Second case, : apply [F2] to the real to obtain a natural with . For every the order preservation of [F3] gives , hence ; since and with by step 1.1, the equivalence of [F5] at the nonnegative pair gives ; so every satisfies .
Steps 2.1 and 2.2 dispose of the two cases and , which exhaust the reals by [F6]: for every real there is a threshold beyond which , which is exactly the condition of [F1]; so diverges to . By [F7] it is therefore unbounded and does not converge.
Depends on
- Square roots exist: a unique $\sqrt{a} \ge 0$ with $(\sqrt{a})^2 = a$; the positives are $\{x^2 : x \neq 0\}$
- Squaring is monotone on the nonnegatives
- Every complete ordered field is Archimedean
- Divergence to $+\infty$ and to $-\infty$
- Every convergent sequence is bounded
- Sequences of reals: bounded, eventually, frequently, tails, subsequences
- Order on the reals
- Canonical naturals are positive and strictly increasing
- The unique embedding of ℚ into an ordered field
- Complete ordered field (least-upper-bound property)
- Ordered field
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Sources
- John K. Hunter, An Introduction to Real Analysis (complete author-hosted lecture notes, 307 pp.) (standard reference, not scraped)
- Jiri Lebl, Basic Analysis I: Introduction to Real Analysis, Volume I (author-hosted complete book PDF) (standard reference, not scraped)