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1 The Littlewood Tauberian theorem
1.1 Introduction
In 1897, the Austrian mathematician Alfred Tauber published a short article on the convergence of numerical series [173], which can be summarised as follows. ∞ = Let an be a convergent series of complex numbers, with n=0 an .A theorem of Abel [1] states that ∞ n f (x) = an x → as x 1. (1.1) n=0
A theorem of Kronecker [116] states that