Some statistically convergent difference sequence spaces defined over real 2-normed linear spaces Hemen Dutta Abstract. In order to extend the notion of convergence of sequences, statistical convergence of sequences was introduced by Fast [5] and Schoenberg [26]. The main aim of this article is to study the concept of statistical convergence from difference sequence spaces point of view which are defined over real linear 2-normed spaces. M.S.C. 2000: 40A05, 46A45, 46E30. Key words: difference sequence, 2-norm, statistical convergence, paranorm, completeness, solidity, symmetricity. 1 Introduction Throughout the article w(X), c(X), c0 (X), c̄(X), c̄0 (X), `∞ (X), m(X) and m0 (X) will represent the spaces of all, convergent, null, statistically convergent, statistically null, bounded, bounded statistically convergent and bounded statistically null X valued sequences spaces, where (X, k., .k) is a real linear 2-normed space. The zero sequence is denoted by θ̄ = (θ, θ, θ, . . . ), where θ is the zero element of X. The notion of difference sequence space was introduced by Kizmaz [18], who studied the difference sequence spaces `∞ (∆), c(∆) and c0 (∆). The notion was further generalized by Et and Colak [2] by introducing the spaces `∞ (∆n ), c(∆n ) and c0 (∆n ). Another type of generalization of the difference sequence spaces is due to Tripathy and Esi [31], who studied the spaces `∞ (∆m ), c(∆m ) and c0 (∆m ). Tripathy, Esi and Tripathy [32] generalized the above notions and unified these as follows: Let m, n be non- negative integers, then for Z a given sequence space we have Z(∆nm ) = {x = (xk ) ∈ w : (∆nm xk ) ∈ Z} , n−1 0 where ∆nm x = (∆nm xk ) = (∆n−1 m xk − ∆m xk+m ) and ∆m xk = xk for all k ∈ N , which is equivalent to the following binomial representation: ∆nm xk Applied Sciences, Vol.12, 2010, pp. µ ¶ n X v n = (−1) xk+mv . v v=0 37-47. c Balkan Society of Geometers, Geometry Balkan Press 2010. ° 38 Hemen Dutta Taking m = 1, we get the spaces `∞ (∆n ), c(∆n ) and c0 (∆n ) studied by Et and Colak [2]. Taking n = 1, we get the spaces `∞ (∆m ), c(∆m ) and c0 (∆m ) studied by Tripathy and Esi [31]. Taking m = n = 1, we get the spaces `∞ (∆), c(∆) and c0 (∆) introduced and studied by Kizmaz [18]. Recently H. Dutta introduced another type of difference operator ∆n(v,m) , where m, n are non-negative integers and v = (vk ) is a sequence of non-zero scalars. For details, one may refer to Dutta [4]. The concept of 2-normed spaces was introduced and studied by Gähler, a German Mathematician who worked at German Academy of Science, Berlin, in a series of paper in German language published in Mathematische Nachrichten, see for example references [3, 9, 10, 11, 12]. This notion which seems to be a two dimensional analogue of a normed space got the attention of a wider audience after the publication of a paper by Albert George, White Jr. [34] of USA in 1969 entitled 2-Banach spaces. In the same year Gähler [12] published another paper on this theme in the same journal. A.H. Siddiqi delivered a series of lectures on this theme in various conferences in India and Iran. His joint paper with S. Gähler and S.C. Gupta [17] of 1975 also provide valuable results related to the theme of this paper. Results up to 1977 were summarized in the survey paper by A.H. Siddiqi [28]. For other works in this direction one may refer to [7, 8, 13, 16, 24, 29]. In the recent years, a number of articles devoted to statistical convergence (see Gürdal and Pehlivan [14]) and its generalization, ideal convergence(see Gürdal and Şahiner [15]) using 2-norm, have been published. Let X be a real vector space of dimension d, where 2 ≤ d. A real-valued function k., .k on X 2 satisfying the following four conditions: (1) (2) (3) (4) kx1 , x2 k = 0 if and only if x1 , x2 are linearly dependent, kx1 , x2 k is invariant under permutation, kαx1 , x2 k = |α|kx1 , x2 k, for any α ∈ R, kx + x0 , x2 k ≤ kx, x2 k + kx0 , x2 k is called a 2-norm on X, and the pair (X, k., .k) is called a 2-normed space. The notion of statistical convergence was studied at the initial stage by Fast [5] and Schoenberg [26] independently. Later on it was further investigated by S̆alàt [25], Fridy [6], Buck [1], Sen and Tripathy [33] and many others. Gürdal and Pehlivan [14] studied statistical convergence in 2-Banach space. A subset E of N is said to have density δ(E) if n 1X χE (k) exists, n→∞ n δ(E) = lim k=1 where χE is the characteristic function of E. The following inequality will be used throughout the article: Let p = ª a positive sequence of real numbers with 0 < pk ≤ sup pk = G, © (pk ) be D = max 1, 2G−1 . Then for all ak , bk ∈ C for all k ∈ N , we have |ak + bk | and for λ ∈ C, pk pk ≤ D {|ak | p + |bk | k } © ª |λ|pk ≤ max 1, |λ|G . Some statistically convergent difference sequence spaces 39 The notion of paranormed sequence space was studied at the initial stage by Simons [27] and Nakano [22]. Later on it was further investigated by Maddox [21], Lascarides [19], Lascarides and Maddox [20], Nanda [23], B.c. Tripathy [30], Tripathy and Sen [33] and a number of workers in the field of sequence spaces. 2 Definitions and background A sequence space E is said to be solid (or normal) if (xk ) ∈ E implies (αk xk ) ∈ E for all sequences of scalars (αk ) with |αk | ≤ 1 for all¡k ∈ N¢ . A sequence space E is said to be symmetric if xπ(k) ∈ E whenever (xk ) ∈ E, where π is a permutation on N . A sequence (xk ) is said to be statistically convergent to L if for every ε > 0, δ ({k ∈ N : |xk − L| ≥ ε}) = 0. For L = 0, we say this is statistically null. Throughout c̄, c¯0 denote the classes of all statistically convergent and statistically null sequences respectively. A sequence (xk ) in a 2-normed space (X, k., .k) is said to converge to some L ∈ X in the 2-norm if lim kxk − L, u1 k = 0, for every u1 ∈ X. k→∞ A sequence (xk ) in a 2-normed space (X, k., .k) is said to be Cauchy with respect to the 2-norm if lim kxk − xl , u1 k = 0, for every u1 ∈ X. k, l→∞ If every Cauchy sequence in X converges to some L ∈ X, then X is said to be complete with respect to the 2-norm. Any complete 2-normed space is said to be 2-Banach space. We introduce the following definitions in this article. Let m and n be two nonnegative integers and p = (pk ) be a sequence of strictly positive real numbers. Then ³ ´ c̄ k., .k, ∆n(m) , p = n o stat (xk ) ∈ w(X) : (k∆n(m) xk − L, zk)pk −−→ 0, for every z ∈ X and some L ∈ X , ³ ´ n o stat c̄0 k., .k, ∆n(m) , p = (xk ) ∈ w(X) : (k∆n(m) xk , zk)pk −−→ 0, for every z ∈ X , We procure the following definition for the sake of completeness: ¾ ³ ´ ½ n n pk `∞ k., .k, ∆(m) , p = (xk ) ∈ w(X) : sup(k∆(m) xk , zk) < ∞, for every z ∈ X , k≥1 The following definition is introduced: ³ ´ W k., .k, ∆n(m) , p = ( (xk ) ∈ w(X) : lim j→∞ j X k=1 ) (k∆n(m) xk − L, zk) pk = 0, for every z ∈ X and some L ∈ X . 40 Hemen Dutta We write and ³ ´ ³ ´ ³ ´ m k., .k, ∆n(m) , p = c̄ k., .k, ∆n(m) , p ∩ `∞ k., .k, ∆n(m) , p ³ ´ ³ ´ ³ ´ m0 k., .k, ∆n(m) , p = c̄0 k., .k, ∆n(m) , p ∩ `∞ k., .k, ∆n(m) , p , n−1 0 where (∆n(m) xk ) = (∆n−1 (m) xk − ∆(m) xk−m ) and ∆(m) xk = xk for all k ∈ N , which is equivalent to the following binomial representation: µ ¶ n X n v n xk−mv . ∆(m) xk = (−1) v v=0 In the above expansion we take xk = 0 for non-positive values of k. The main aim behind considering the generalized difference operator ∆n(m) is that we can derive several other spaces from the above constructed spaces for particular values of m and n. In particular for n = 0, the above spaces reduce to the spaces c̄ (k., .k, p), c̄0 (k., .k, p), `∞ (k., .k, p), W (k., .k, p), m (k., .k, p) and m0 (k., .k, p) respectively. Again if we replace the base space X, which is a real³ linear ´ 2-normed space ³ ´ n n by C, complete normed linear space, we get the spaces c̄ ∆(m) , p , c̄0 ∆(m) , p , ³ ´ ³ ´ ³ ´ ³ ´ `∞ ∆n(m) , p , W ∆n(m) , p , m ∆n(m) , p and m0 ∆n(m) , p respectively. Further if we take X = C, pk = l, a constant for all k ∈ N and n = 0, we get the spaces c̄, c̄0 , `∞ , W , m and m0 respectively. First we procure some known results; those will help in establishing the results of this article. Lemma 2.1. ([33]) For two sequences pk and (tk ) we have m0 (p) ⊇ m0 (t) if and only if lim inf ptkk > 0, where K⊆ N such that δ(K) = 1. k∈K Lemma 2.2. ([33]) Let h = inf pk and G = sup pk , then the following are equivalent: (i) G < ∞ and h> 0, (ii) m(p) = m. We now cite the following two known 2-normed spaces. Example 2.1. Consider the spaces Z where Z=`∞ , c and c0 of real sequences. Let us define: kx, yk = sup sup |xi yj − xj yi |, where x = (x1 , x2 , . . . ) and y = (y1 , y2 , . . . ) ∈ Z. i∈N j∈N Then k., .kE is a 2-norm on Z. Example 2.2. Let us take X = R2 and consider the function on X defined as: ¯¶ µ¯ ¯x11 x12 ¯ ¯ ¯ , where xi = (xi1 , xi2 ) ∈ R2 f or each i = 1, 2. kx1 , x2 kE = abs ¯ x21 x22 ¯ Then k., .kE is a 2-norm on X known as Euclidean 2-norm. Remark 2.1. Every closed linear subspace of an arbitrary linear normed space E, different from E, is a nowhere dense set in E. Some statistically convergent difference sequence spaces 3 41 Main results In this section we mainly investigate several topological ³ ´ linear ³ ´ and³algebraic properties ´ relevant to the spaces c̄0 k., .k, ∆n(m) , p , c̄ k., .k, ∆n(m) , p , m k., .k, ∆n(m) , p and ³ ´ m0 k., .k, ∆n(m) , p respectively. Theorem 3.1. Let p = (pk ) be³a bounded sequence ´ ³real numbers.´ ´ ³ of strictly positive n n Then the classes of sequences c̄0 k., .k, ∆(m) , p , c̄ k., .k, ∆(m) , p , m0 k., .k, ∆n(m) , p ³ ´ and m k., .k, ∆n(m) , p are linear spaces. ³ ´ Proof. We prove the theorem only for the space c̄ k., .k, ∆n(m) , p and for the other spaces it will follow on arguments. ³ applying similar ´ Let (xk ), (yk ) ∈ c̄ k., .k, ∆n(m) , p . Then there exist L, J ∈ X such that for every z∈X ³ ´pk stat −−→ 0 k∆n(m) xk − L, zk and ³ ´pk k∆n(m) yk − J, zk stat −−→ 0. Let α, β be scalars. Then we have for every z ∈ X ³ ´pk ³ ´p k k∆n(m) (αxk + βyk ) − (αL + βJ), zk = k∆n(m) α(xk − L) + ∆n(m) β(yk − J), zk ³ ´pk ≤ |α|k∆n(m) xk − L, zk + |β|k∆n(m) yk − J, zk ³ ´pk ³ ´pk ≤ D|α|G k∆n(m) xk − L, zk + D|β|G k∆n(m) yk − J, zk , where G = sup pk . stat ³ −−→ 0, as k → ∞. ´ Hence c̄ k., .k, ∆n(m) , p is a linear space. ¤ ³ ´ ³ ´ Theorem 3.2. The spaces m0 k., .k, ∆n(m) , p and m k., .k, ∆n(m) , p are paranormed spaces, paranormed by ³ ´ pHk n g(x) = sup k∆(m) xk , zk , where H = max{1, sup pk }. k∈N, z∈X k Proof. Clearly g(x) = g(−x); x = θ implies g(θ) = 0. Now ³ ´ pHk g(x + y) = sup k∆n(m) (xk + yk ), zk . k∈N, z∈X ³ ≤ sup k∈N, z∈X ´ pHk k∆n(m) xk , zk This implies that g(x + y) ≤ g(x) + g(y). ³ + sup k∈N, z∈X ´ pHk k∆n(m) yk , zk . 42 Hemen Dutta The continuity of the scalar multiplication follows from the following equality: ³ ´ pHk g(λx) = sup k∆n(m) (λxk ), zk . k∈N, z∈X = sup k∈N, z∈X ³ ´ pHk |λ|k∆n(m) xk , zk ≤ max (1, |λ|) sup k∈N, z∈X . ´ pHk ³ |λ|k∆n(m) xk , zk . = max (1, ³ |λ|) g(x). ´ ³ ´ Hence the spaces m0 k., .k, ∆n(m) , p and m k., .k, ∆n(m) , p are paranormed by g. ¤ Remark 3.1. For any two sequences p = (pk ) and t = (tk ) of ³positive real num´ bers and for any two 2-norms k., .k1 and k., .k2 on X we have Z k., .k1 , ∆n(m) , p ∩ ´ ³ Z k., .k2 , ∆n(m) , t 6= φ, where Z = c̄, m, c̄0 , m0 . Proof. The proof follows from the fact that the zero element belongs to each of the classes of sequences involved in the intersection. ¤ ³ ´ Theorem 3.3. The spaces Z k., .k, ∆n(m) , p are not solid in general, where Z = c̄, m, c̄0 , m0 . Proof. To show that the spaces are not solid in general, consider the following examples. Example 3.1. Let m = 3, n = 1 and consider the 2-normed space as defined in Example 2.1. Let pk = 5 for all k ∈ N . Consider the sequence (xk ), where xk = (xik´) ³ is defined by (xik ) = (k, k, k, . . . ) for each fixed k ∈ N . Then (xk ) ∈ Z k., .k, ∆1(3) , p ³ ´ for Z = c̄, m. Let αk = (−1)k , then (αk xk ) ∈ / Z k., .k, ∆1(3) , p for Z = c̄, m. Thus ³ ´ Z k., .k, ∆n(m) , p for Z = c̄, m are not solid in general. ¤ Example 3.2. Let m = 3, n = 1 and consider the 2-normed space as defined in Example 2.1. Let pk = 1 for all k odd and pk = 2 for all k even. Consider the i sequence (xk ), where ) is defined by (xik ) = (3, 3, 3, . . . ) for each fixed k ∈ N . ³ xk = (xk´ Then (xk ) ∈ Z k., .k, ∆1(3) , p for Z = c̄0 , m0 . Let αk = (−1)k , then (αk xk ) ∈ / ³ ´ ³ ´ Z k., .k, ∆1(3) , p for Z = c̄0 , m0 . Thus Z k., .k, ∆n(m) , p for Z = c̄0 , m0 are not solid in general. ¤ ³ ´ Theorem 3.4. The spaces Z k., .k, ∆n(m) , p are not symmetric in general, where Z = c̄, m, c̄0 , m0 . Proof. To show that the spaces are not symmetric in general, consider the following example. Example 3.3. Let m = 2, n = 2 and consider the 2-normed space as defined in Example 2.2. Let pk = 2 for all k odd and pk = 1 for all k even. Consider the sequence (xk ) defined by xk = (k, k) for each fixed k ∈ N . Then ∆2(2) xk = xk − Some statistically convergent difference sequence spaces 43 ³ ´ 2xk−2 + xk−4 , k ∈ N . Hence (xk ) ∈ Z k., .k, ∆2(2) , p for Z = c̄, m, c̄0 , m0 . Let (yk ) be a rearrangement of (xk ), which is defined as follows: (yk ) = {x1 , x2 , x4 , x3 , x9 , x5 , x16 , x6 , x25 , x7 , x36 , x8 , x49 , x10 , . . . }. ³ ´ Then (yk ) ∈ / Z k., .k, ∆2(2) , p for Z = c̄, m, c̄0 , m0 . Hence for Z = c̄, m, c̄0 , m0 , the ´ ³ ¤ spaces Z k., .k, ∆n(m) , p are not symmetric in general. Remark 3.2. For two sequences (pk ) and (tk ) we have ³ ´ ³ ´ m0 k., .k, ∆n(m) , p ⊇ m0 k., .k, ∆n(m) , t pk k∈K tk if and only if lim inf > 0, where K ⊆ N such that δ(K) = 1. ³ ∆n x ´ k Proof. If we take (yk ) = k (m) , zk for all k ∈ N , then the result follows from the ρ Lemma 2.1. ¤ Remark 3.3. For two sequences (pk ) and (tk ) we have ³ ´ ³ ´ m0 k., .k, ∆n(m) , p = m0 k., .k, ∆n(m) , t pk k∈K tk if and only if lim inf tk k∈K pk > 0 and lim inf > 0, where K ⊆ N such that δ(K) = 1. Proof. This result is a consequence of the above result. ¤ Remark 3.4. Let h = inf pk and G = sup pk , then the following are equivalent: (i) G =³ sup pk and h´> 0, ³ ´ (ii) m k., .k, ∆n(m) , p = m k., .k, ∆n(m) ³ ∆n x ´ k Proof. Taking (yk ) = k (m) , zk for all k ∈ N and using the Lemma 2.2, we get ρ the result. ¤ Theorem 3.5. Let p = (p bounded real ³ k ) be a sequence ´ of non-negative ³ ´ ³ numbers such ´ n n that inf pk > 0. Then m k., .k, ∆(m) , p = W k., .k, ∆(m) , p ∩ `∞ k., .k, ∆n(m) , p . ³ ´ ³ ´ Proof. Let (xk ) ∈ W k., .k, ∆n(m) , p ∩ `∞ k., .k, ∆n(m) , p . Then for a given ε > 0, we have j ³ X ´pk k∆n(m) xk − L, zk o n ≥ card k ≤ j : (k∆n(m) xk − L, zk)pk ≥ ε ε. k=1 ³ ´ From the above inequality, it follows that (xk ) ∈ m k., .k, ∆n(m) , p . ³ ´ Conversely let (xk ) ∈ m k., .k, ∆n(m) , p and ρ > 0 be such that stat (k∆n(m) xk − L, zk)pk −−→ 0, for every z ∈ X and some L ∈ X. 44 Hemen Dutta ³ ´ pHk k∆n(m) xk For a given ε > 0, let B = sup − L, zk < ∞, where H = max{1, sup pk }. k n o ³ ´ Let Lj = k ≤ j : (k∆n(m) xk − L, zk)pk ≥ 2ε . Since (xk ) ∈ m k., .k, ∆n(m) , p , so Card{Lj } j → 0 as j → ∞. Let n0 > 0 be such that Then for all j > n0 , we have 1 j j ¡ ¢pk P k∆n (m) xk − L, zk P ¡ ¢pk k∆n + (m) xk − L, zk = 1 j ≤ j−Card{Lj } ε .2 j k=1 ³ k∈L / j Card{Lj } j ´ Hence (xk ) ∈ W k., .k, ∆n(m) , p ∩ `∞ ³ + Card{Lj } .B H j 1 j ≤ ε 2B H < P ¡ k∈Lj ε 2 + for all j > n0 . k∆n (m) xk − L, zk ε 2 ¢pk = ε. ´ k., .k, ∆n(m) , p . ¤ The following result is a consequence of the above theorem. Corollary 3.1. Let (pk ) and (tk ) be two bounded sequences of real numbers such that inf pk > 0 and inf tk > 0. Then ³ ´ ³ ´ ³ ´ ³ ´ W k., .k, ∆n(m) , p ∩ `∞ k., .k, ∆n(m) , p = W k., .k, ∆n(m) , t ∩ `∞ k., .k, ∆n(m) , t . ³ ´ Theorem 3.6. Let (X, k., .k) be a 2-Banach space, then the spaces m k., .k, ∆n(m) , p ³ ´ and m0 k., .k, ∆n(m) , p are complete. ³ ´ Proof. We prove the result for the space m0 k., .k, ∆n(m) , p and for the other space i it will ³ follow on ´applying similar arguments. Let (x ) be a Cauchy sequence in m0 k., .k, ∆n(m) , p . Then for a given ε(0 < ε < 1), there exists a positive integer n0 such that g(xi − xj ) < ε, for all i, j ≥ n0 . This implies that ³ sup k∈N, z∈X k∆n(m) xik − ∆n(m) xjk , zk ´ pHk < ε, for all i, j ≥ n0 . It follows that for every z ∈ X, ³ ´ k∆n(m) (xik − xjk ), zk < ε, for each k ≥ 1 and i, j ≥ n0 . Hence (∆n(m) xik ) is a Cauchy sequence in the 2-Banach space X for all k ∈ N . Thus (∆n(m) xik ) is convergent in X for all k ∈ N . For simplicity, let lim ∆n(m) xik = yk for each k ∈ N . Let k = 1, then we have (3.1) lim i→∞ ∆n(m) xi1 i→∞ µ ¶ n X v n = lim (−1) xi1−mv = lim xi1 = y1 . i→∞ i→∞ v v=0 Similarly, we have, (3.2) lim ∆n(m) xik = lim xik = yk , for k = 1, . . . , nm. i→∞ i→∞ Some statistically convergent difference sequence spaces 45 Thus from (3.1) and (3.2), we have lim xi1+nm exists. Let lim xi1+nm = x1+nm . i→∞ i→∞ Proceeding in this way inductively, we have lim xik = xk , say exists for each k ∈ N . i→∞ Now we have for all i, j ≥ n0 , ³ sup k∈N, z∈X ´ pHk k∆n(m) (xik − xjk ), zk ( ³ ⇒ lim j→∞ sup k∈N, z∈X ³ ⇒ sup k∈N, z∈X k∆n(m) (xik k∆n(m) (xik <ε ´ pHk − xjk ), zk − xk ), zk ´ pHk ) < ε, for all i ≥ n0 < ε, for all i ≥ n0 . ³ ´ ³ ´ It follows that (xi − x) ∈ m0 k., .k, ∆n(m) , p . Since (xi ) ∈ m0 k., .k, ∆n(m) , p and ³ ´ ³ ´ m0 k., .k, ∆n(m) , p is a linear space, so we have x = xi −(xi −x) ∈ m0 k., .k, ∆n(m) , p . This completes the proof. ¤ ³ ´ ³ ´ As consequence, it follows that m0 k., .k, ∆n(m) , p and m k., .k, ∆n(m) , p are closed ³ ´ subspaces of `∞ k., .k, ∆n(m) , p . Since the inclusion relations ³ ´ ³ ´ m0 k., .k, ∆n(m) , p ⊂ `∞ k., .k, ∆n(m) , p , ³ ´ ³ ´ m k., .k, ∆n(m) , p ⊂ `∞ k., .k, ∆n(m) , p are strict, we have the following result. ³ ´ ³ ´ Corollary 3.2. 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