Application To Power Series
This test can be used with a power series
where the coefficients cn, and the center p are complex numbers and the argument z is a complex variable.
The terms of this series would then be given by an = cn(z − p)n. One then applies the root test to the an as above. Note that sometimes a series like this is called a power series "around p", because the radius of convergence is the radius R of the largest interval or disc centred at p such that the series will converge for all points z strictly in the interior (convergence on the boundary of the interval or disc generally has to be checked separately). A corollary of the root test applied to such a power series is that the radius of convergence is exactly taking care that we really mean ∞ if the denominator is 0.
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