CONVERGENCE AND PERTURBATION THEOREMS 491
and using
Nj
= 0 for j;;:: n,
(7 .4.2)
Notice that the powers
of
D satisfy
m-j;;::m-n-+oo
as
m-+oo
(7.4.3)
We need the following limits:
For
any
positive c < 1
and
any r
;;::
0,
(7 .4.4)
m-+
oo
This can be proved using L'Hospital's rule from elementary calculus.
In (7.4.2), there are a fixed number
of
terms, n + 1, regardless
of
the
size
of
m,
and we can consider the convergence
of
Jm by considering
each
of
the individual terms. Assuming ra(A) < 1, we know that all
1-h;l
< 1, i = 1,
...
,
n.
And
for any matrix norm
Using the row norm, we have that the preceding is bounded
by
which converges to zero as m
-+
oo,
using (7.4.3) and (7.4.4), for 0
:$;
j :$;
n. This proves half
of
the theorem, namely that if ra(A) <
1,
then
Jm
and
Am, from (7.4.1), converge to zero as
m-+
oo.
Suppose that ra(A);;::
1.
Then let A
be
an
eigenvalue
of
A for which
i.hl
;;::
1, and let x
be
an
associated eigenvector,
x-=!=
0.
Then
and clearly this does
not
converge to zero as m
-+
oo.
Thus it is
not
possible that
Am-+
0,
as that would
implyAmx-+
0. This completes the
proof. •
Theorem 7.10 (Geometric Series) Let A
be
a square matrix.
If
ra(A) <
1,
then
(I-
A)-
1
exists, and it can be expressed as a convergent series,
( )
-1
2
I-A
=l+A+A
+···+Am+···
(7 .4.5)
Conversely, if the series
in
(7.4.5) is convergent, then ra(A) <
1.
Proof Assume ra(A) <
1.
We show the existence
of
(I-
A)-
1
by
proving the
equivalent statement
{3)
of
Theorem 7.2. Assume
(I-
A)x
= 0