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Tauberian theorem

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Any of a class of theorems which, for a given Abelian theorem, specifies conditions such that any series whose Abel sums converge (as stipulated by the Abelian theorem) is in fact convergent.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: mathematical-analysis, mathematics, sciences

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  • 1988, Staff writer, Foreword, [1933, Norbert Wiener, The Fourier Integral and Certain of Its Applications], Cambridge University Press, 1988 reissue, page xi, Not only did the general Tauberian theorem give a unifying view on questions involving summations and limits, but it introduced a paradigm for what was called abstract harmonic analysis a few years later. [...] Generalized harmonic analysis is the subject-matter of the last chapter, though it was conceived before the Tauberian theorems.

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Etymology

After Austrian and Slovak mathematician Alfred Tauber (1866-1942).