Analysis Problem, limits & supremum, infimum and sequences

In summary, The conversation discusses a proof involving bounded sequences in R and the limit inferior. It is shown that the limit inferior of the sum of two sequences is greater than or equal to the sum of the limit inferiors of each sequence. One of the participants had overlooked a solved example but was able to solve the problem by using the result from a previous problem.
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I have analysis quiz tomorrow and i am really poor at sequences.

I don't know where to begin

Let (sn) and (tn) be sequences in R. Assume that (sn) is bounded.

Prove that liminf(sn +tn)≥liminfsn +liminftn,

where we define −∞ + s = −∞ and +∞ + s = +∞ for any s ∈ R.

-thanks
 
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Ok, what did you try already?
 
  • #3
I got it,

I had to solve a problem before this one which gave me the result
lim infSn = -lim sup(-Sn)

And from a solved example i got

lim Sup(sn + tn) < lim supSn + lim SupTn

so multiplying b.s by (-1) and using -Sn instead for
we get

-lim Sup(-Sn - T) > lim Sup(-Sn) + lim Sup(-Tn)

There fore

lim Inf(Sn + Tn) > lim InfSn + lim InfTn

I had overlooked the solved example.
 

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