Q 49. - Calculus

Question

Find the radius of convergence for the given series: $\sum _{k=0}^{\infty }\frac{k!}{\left(k+m\right)!}{x}^k$

Step-by-Step Solution

Answer

The radius of convergence for the series is $1$.

Step 1. Given information.

The given power series is $\sum _{k=0}^{\infty }\frac{k!}{\left(k+m\right)!}x$.

Step 2. Find the radius of convergence.

Let us take $b_k=\frac{k!}{\left(k+m\right)!}{x}^k$ therefore $b_{k+1}=\frac{\left(k+1\right)!}{\left(k+1+m\right)!}{x}^{k+1}$

Ratio for the absolute convergence is 

$$\begin{gathered} \underset{k\to \infty }{\lim }\left|\frac{b_{k+1}}{b_k}\right|=\underset{k\to \infty }{\lim }\left|\frac{{\displaystyle \frac{\left(k+1\right)!}{\left(k+1+m\right)!}}{x}^{k+1}}{{\displaystyle \frac{k!}{\left(k+m\right)!}}{x}^k}\right| \\ =\underset{k\to \infty }{\lim }\left|\left(\frac{k+1}{k+1+m}\right)x\right| \end{gathered}$$

So, by the ratio test of absolute convergence, the series will converge when $\left|x\right|<1$.

This implies that $x\in (-1,1)$.

Therefore, the radius of the convergence for the series is $1$.