Xiao-Xiong Gan (Morgan State University, Baltimore MD, USA)
From Formal Power Series to Formal Analysis
For any , a formal power series on a ring is defined to be a mapping from to . A formal power series in from to is usually denoted as a sequence or as a power series , where for every . The set of all formal power series on is denoted by .
If considering a formal power series as a sequence, what is the difference between and ?
If considering a formal power series as a power series, what is the difference between formal power series and the traditional power series? What is the relationship between formal power series and traditional power series?
What is formal analysis?
This talk tries to answer those questions and brings discussion of all kinds of questions about formal analysis, a relatively new mathematical subject.