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# Almost convergent sequence

A bounded real sequence $\left(x_n\right)$ is said to be almost convergent to $L$ if each Banach limit assigns the same value $L$ to the sequence $\left(x_n\right)$.

Lorentz proved that $\left(x_n\right)$ is almost convergent if and only if

$limlimits_\left\{ptoinfty\right\} frac\left\{x_\left\{n\right\}+ldots+x_\left\{n+p-1\right\}\right\}p=L$
uniformly in $n$.

The above limit can be rewritten in detail as

Almost convergence is studied in summability theory. It is an example of a summability method which cannot be represented as a matrix method.

## References

• G. Bennett and N.J. Kalton: "Consistency theorems for almost convergence." Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 198:23--43, 1974.
• J. Boos: "Classical and modern methods in summability." Oxford University Press, New York, 2000.
• J. Connor and K.-G. Grosse-Erdmann: "Sequential definitions of continuity for real functions." Rocky Mt. J. Math., 33(1):93--121, 2003.
• G.G. Lorentz: "A contribution to the theory of divergent sequences." Acta Math., 80:167--190, 1948.

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