Definition:Cauchy Sequence/Normed Vector Space

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Definition

Let $\struct {V, \norm {\,\cdot\,} }$ be a normed vector space.

Let $\sequence {x_n}$ be a sequence in $V$.


Then $\sequence {x_n}$ is a Cauchy sequence if and only if:

$\forall \epsilon \in \R_{>0}: \exists N \in \N: \forall m, n \in \N: m, n \ge N: \norm {x_n - x_m} < \epsilon$


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Source of Name

This entry was named for Augustin Louis Cauchy.


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