Helper for Proposition 4.2.6: explicit iterated derivative formula for
(x - a)^n with falling-product coefficient.
Helper for Proposition 4.2.6: pull the constant factor c out of
iterated derivatives of the shifted monomial.
Helper for Proposition 4.2.6: the falling-product coefficient vanishes
when k > n.
Proposition 4.2.6: let n : ℕ and a c : ℝ, and define
f(x) = c * (x - a)^n. Then f is infinitely differentiable on ℝ.
Moreover, for every k with k ≤ n,
iteratedDeriv k f x = c * (n! / (n-k)!) * (x-a)^(n-k) for all x : ℝ,
and for every k > n, iteratedDeriv k f x = 0 for all x : ℝ.
Proposition 4.2.7: let a, b ∈ ℝ and n ≥ 0 be an integer. Then for every x ∈ ℝ, (x - a)^n = ∑_{m=0}^n (n! / (m!(n-m)!)) (b - a)^(n-m) (x - b)^m.
Helper for Proposition 4.2.9: rewrite the factorial-ratio summand into a constant multiple of the standard choose-geometric term.
Proposition 4.2.9: if r > 0, m : ℕ, and |x| < r, then
r / (r - x)^(m+1) equals the binomial-coefficient power series, written in the
reindexed form ∑' n, ((n+m)!/(m!n!)) x^n r^{-(n+m)} (equivalent to summing from
n = m); moreover this series converges absolutely for every such x.
Proposition 4.2.10: let E ⊆ ℝ, let a be an interior point of E, and let
f : E → ℝ be real analytic at a with a power-series expansion
f(x) = ∑' n, c n * (x-a)^n converging for all x ∈ (a-r, a+r) for some r > 0.
If (b-s, b+s) with s > 0 is any open interval contained in (a-r, a+r), then
|a-b| ≤ r-s; in particular |a-b| < r.
Helper for Proposition 4.2.11: evaluating the interval summability hypothesis
at x = a + (r - ε) yields summability of n ↦ c n * (r - ε)^n.
Proposition 4.2.11: under the same hypotheses and notation as the preceding
power-series setup, for every ε with 0 < ε < r there exists C > 0 such that
|c n| ≤ C * (r - ε)^{-n} for all integers n ≥ 0 (encoded with n : ℕ).
Proposition 4.2.12: under the hypotheses and notation of the local power-series
setup, if (b-s, b+s) ⊆ (a-r, a+r) with s > 0, then for every m : ℕ the shifted
coefficient series
∑' n, ((n+m)!/(m!n!)) * (b-a)^n * c (n+m) (equivalently the original sum from
n = m) is absolutely convergent; hence the corresponding d_m is well-defined.