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CONVERGENCE OF p -SERIES REVISITED WITH APPLICATIONS ELOM K. ABALO AND KOKOU Y. ABALO Received 18 January 2006; Revised 2 May 2006; Accepted 7 May 2006 We construct two adjacent sequences that converge to the sum of a given convergent p - series. In case of a divergent p -series, lower and upper bounds of the (kn)th partial sum are constructed. In either case, we extend the results obtained by Hansheng and Lu (2005) to any integer k ≥ 2. Some numerical examples are given. Copyright © 2006 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. Theorem 2 is the main result in this note. Lemma 1 is key to our main result. It is different from the result in [2] because it does not restrict the number of terms in the partial sum to an even one. Also, our inequalities (2) should be compared with the corresponding result in [2] for k = 2. Lemma 1. Let sn (p ) be the nth partial sum of the p -series ∞ (1/ip ), and let k be any i=1 integer greater than 1. (a) If p 0, then k − 1 k k s (p ) − + s (p ) s (p ) s (p ) + s (p ). (1) k −1 n kn k −1 n kp kp kp (b) If p 0, then k 1 k k + s (p ) s (p ) 1 − + s (p ). (2) n−1 kn n kp kp kp Proof. Let us observe that by the definition of sn (p ), we have k −1