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I'm focusing on summability theory/summation methods/resummation theory and related topics, in other words methods to give meaningful sum to divergent series. First I recall that a method is called linear if:

$$\sum_{n=0}^{+\infty} a_n+b_n=\sum_{n=0}^{+\infty} a_n+\sum_{n=0}^{+\infty} b_n$$

holds.

A well-know inequality is that: $|a+b|\leq |a|+|b|$ so I guess that if all of the series converge there is no harm (correct me if I'm wrong) in assume that results:

$$\sum_{n=0}^{+\infty} |a_n+b_n|\leq \sum_{n=0}^{+\infty} |a_n|+\sum_{n=0}^{+\infty} |b_n|$$

But is this true for divergent series too (if I'm working with a linear method) ? I guess no so maybe the question should be: is there any linear summation method (standard summation doesn't obviously count) for which this property holds ? However I'm skeptical of this too 'cause a divergent sum of positive terms can be summed to a negative value so what if I consider this:

$$|\sum_{n=0}^{+\infty} |a_n+b_n||\leq |\sum_{n=0}^{+\infty} |a_n||+|\sum_{n=0}^{+\infty} |b_n||$$

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    Why the downvote ? Don't know why a lot of people doesn't like this subject...2017-01-07
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    zeta regularization is not always linear :( be careful also does not respect the triangle inequality and many other features2017-01-07
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    @JoseGarcia sorry wrong example2017-01-07

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