Definition
Let
be a formal power series in z.
Define the Borel transform of by
Suppose that the Borel transform converges to an analytic function of t near 0 that can be analytically continued along the positive real axis to a function growing sufficiently slowly that the following integral is well defined (as an improper integral). Then the Borel sum of y is given by
A slightly weaker form of Borel's summation method gives the Borel sum of y as
If the sum exists in this sense then it also exists in the previous sense and is the same, but there are some series that can be summed with the previous method but not with this method (Hardy 1992, 8.5).
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