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The functions
fi
and
fi+l,
(i
=
1,
...,
i?
-
1)
have the same asymptotic
expansion at the origin:
fi,
fi+l
N
f”,
in Gevreyi sense. Therefore
fi+l
-
fi
=
fi,i+l
is asymptotic to zero on
V,,i+l
=
V,
fl
V,+l
in Gevrey
$
sense
(i.
e.
is exponentially decreasing with an order
k).
The eye-shaped “sector”
&+I
admits an opening exactly equal to
i.
There is a converse to this property which
(
even if it seems surprising)
will give
a
very efficient way to prove that a power series derived from a
problem of dynamical system is k-summable.
Theorem
1.5.
We assume that
{Vl,
...,
V,}
is an open covering
of
the
punctured disc
D*
by
open sector, such that the
3
by
3
intersections are
void. Let
{
f1,
...,
f,}
be a collection
of
holomorphic functions satisfying
the following conditions:
(a) each
fj
E
O(V,)
is bounded on
V,
(j
=
1,
...,
m);
(ii)
fj,j+l
defined
in
V,,j+l
=
V,
n
&+I
can be extended
in
an holomorphic
function defined on an eyeshaped ((sector” with opening
2
such that
Then there exists a unique formal power series
f”
such that
fj
N
f^
(i
=
1,
...,
m).
Moreover
f”
is k-summable and the
fls
correspond to sums
off
in
diferent directions.
If
we denote by
C
the finite set
of
the bisecting
lines
of
the sectors
&,i+l(i
=
1,
...,
m),
then
C(f”)
c
C.
this extension (denoted also
fj,j+l)
satisfies
fj,j+l
E
A-
<-k
(
v‘
j,j+l).
Proof.
We leave it to the reader (it is easy, using Theorem
1.4)
and
our definition of Ic-summability.
In the case of dynamical systems, it is in many cases possible to find
directly the
fis
using dynamical methods. Then it remains to estimate the
differences
fi+l
-
fi
=
fi,i+l
in order to prove an exponential decay (of
some order).
It
is important to notice that it is easy to linearize this last
problem, therefore the method is very powerful for non-linear problems.
Examples.
We will describe in some details two k-summable series. We
will begin with
our
favorite example: the Euler series. The next example
will be
a
power series coming &om the asymptotic expansion of the Airy
function at infinityll.
+m
=n
Euler series.
We start from
f(z)
=
C
(-l)”n!z”+’.
Here
k
=
1.
Its
.-
-
,.A
formal Bore1 transform is
B
f
(t)
=
&
=
1
-
t
+
t2
-
. .
. .
By 1-summation
llFor
more
details and other examples from special functions theory, cf. [Mar Ram].