proof of identity theorem of power series
We start by proving a more modest result. Namely, we show that,under the hypotheses of the theorem we are trying to prove, wecan conclude that .
Let be chosen such that both series converge when .From the set of points at which the two power series
are equal, we maychoose a sequence such that
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for all .
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exists and equals .
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for all .
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Since power series converge uniformly, we may interchange thelimit with the summation.
Because for all ,this means that .
We will now prove that for all byan induction argument
. The intial step with is, of course, the result demonstrated above.Assume that for all less thansome integer . Then we have
for all . Pulling out a commonfactor and relabelling the index, we have
Because , the factor willnot equal zero, so we may cancel it:
By our weaker result, we have .Hence, by induction, we have for all .