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Oscillating sequences with subadditivity on shrinking corridors
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- Classical and Real Analysis
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Abstract
Let w:[T,∞)→[0,1] be measurable and nonincreasing. For exact eventual subadditivity on the integer corridor n≤m≤n+n w(log n), we identify a square-integral threshold. If ∫w(s)² ds diverges, normalized slopes converge for nondecreasing nonnegative linearly bounded sequences, without continuity or an adjacent-pair assumption. In this divergent-integral case, if adjacent integer pairs are eventually admissible, a prefix-envelope and dyadic-record argument removes all monotonicity, sign and growth hypotheses: every real sequence satisfying the corridor inequality has a normalized limit in ℝ∪{−∞}. In particular, n/√log n is a sufficient sublinear corridor for arbitrary real sequences. If the integral is finite, a shifted-tail correction gives strictly increasing integer submultiplicative and supermultiplicative counterexamples with logarithmic growth endpoints 1.99 and 2.01. Thus the criterion is an exact dichotomy in the monotone counting class, and also for arbitrary real sequences when the adjacent-pair condition holds. Without monotonicity, adjacent-pair legality cannot simply be omitted: we construct a positive nonincreasing width for which every finite positive-power integral diverges, yet an integer-valued linearly bounded subadditive sequence has normalized lower and upper limits zero and one.
Keywords subadditivity · Fekete lemma · shrinking corridors · oscillating sequences · submultiplicative growth
Scope of the work
Square-integral dichotomy for the monotone counting class and arbitrary-real-sequence convergence with eventual adjacent-pair legality. A positive nonincreasing width with divergent integrals of every finite positive power admits an oscillating integer-valued linearly bounded subadditive sequence when that legality condition fails.
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References and related publications
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- A. Kulikov and F. Shao, Fekete’s lemma in Banach spaces , arXiv:2411.17380v1 (2024).
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Scott Schubr. (2026). Oscillating sequences with subadditivity on shrinking corridors (Version 2). Luminary Research Archive. https://research.luminaryoddities.com/oscillating-sequences-subadditivity-shrinking-corridors/v/2
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title = {Oscillating sequences with subadditivity on shrinking corridors},
author = {Scott Schubr},
year = {2026},
institution = {Luminary Research Archive},
type = {Research Article},
note = {Version 2},
url = {https://research.luminaryoddities.com/oscillating-sequences-subadditivity-shrinking-corridors/v/2}
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