Bourbaki

Theorem 1

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General Topology, chapter VII, § 3. Infinite sums in the groups $\mathbf{R}^n$

A family (xi)i∈I(x_i)_{i \in I} of points of Rn\mathbf{R}^n is summable if and only if the family (∣∣xi∣∣)(||x_i||) of Euclidean norms of the xix_i is summable in R\mathbf{R}.

This follows without trouble from Proposition 1, the condition for summability of a family of real numbers (Chapter IV, § 7, no. 2, Theorem 3), the inequalities

sup⁡1≤k≤n∣xi,k∣≤∣∣xi∣∣≤∑i=1n∣xi,i∣, \sup_{1 \leq k \leq n} |x_{i,k}| \leq ||x_i|| \leq \sum_{i=1}^n |x_{i,i}|,

and the comparison principle (Chapter IV, § 7, no. 1, Theorem 2).

One can also proceed somewhat differently, by first establishing the following proposition:

Bourbaki puts the proof directly after the statement, so what is above is the statement and its proof together.

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