Theorem
Flat residual from asymptotic summation
A realized field has an infinitely small residual when finite partial sums improve in order and the nonlinear comparison loses only fixed powers.
Statement
Let be a fixed differential polynomial of finite order and degree whose coefficient jets grow at most as fixed powers of . Suppose smooth finite states and a smooth realization on one domain satisfy
near , and
Assume are independent of , and each fixed is for every . Then has infinite-order decay with all derivatives.
Compare with one fixed stage
Fix an output derivative order and target decay order . If has order and degree , choose so large that the tail exponent exceeds plus the fixed coefficient loss and . Also require , with a positive margin to absorb logarithms. Keep this fixed.
In a sufficiently small -neighborhood, the difference jet is at most one and the fixed-stage logarithms fit within the allocated power margin. The differential-polynomial difference estimate gives . The fixed-stage residual and its fixed flat remainder have the same bound. The triangle inequality proves the claim.
The order of choices is , then a finite , then a neighborhood and constants. This argument never sums the flat remainders over stages; arbitrary stage-dependent flat errors need not form a convergent series.