Basic Properties of limsup and liminf
Standard inequalities and identities involving limit superior and limit inferior.
Let and be real sequences. Their limit superior and limit inferior, regarded as extended real numbers, satisfy:
- .
- If eventually, then
- .
- If , then .
- If , then eventually. If , then eventually.
Remarks
The strict inequalities in item 5 are essential: equality with or need not imply an eventual strict bound.