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An analytic function is a function that is locally given by a converging power series.
Let and be complete Hausdorff topological vector spaces, let be locally convex, let be an element of , and let be an infinite sequence of homogeneous operator?s from to with each of degree .
Given an element of , consider the infinite series
(a power series). Let be the interior of the set of such that this series converges in ; we call the domain of convergence of the power series. This series defines a function from to ; we are really interested in the case where is inhabited, in which case it is a balanced neighbourhood? of in (which is Proposition 5.3 of Bochnak–Siciak).
Let be any subset of and any continuous function from to . This function is analytic if, for every , there is a power series as above with inhabited domain of convergence such that
for every in both and . (That is continuous follows automatically in many cases, including of course the finite-dimensional case.)
The vector spaces and may be generalised to analytic manifolds and (more generally) analytic spaces. However, these are manifolds and varieties modelled on vector spaces using analytic transition functions, so the notion of analytic function between vector spaces is most fundamental.
If is a vector space over the complex numbers, then we have this very nice theorem, due essentially to Édouard Goursat:
A function from to is differentiable if and only if it is analytic.
(Differentiability here is in the usual sense, that the difference quotient converges in .) See holomorphic function and Goursat theorem.
The theory of analytic function was constructed to some extent by
and in full generality by
Textbook accounts:
Robert C. Gunning, Hugo Rossi, Analytic functions of several complex variables, Prentice-Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs (1965)
Jacek Bochnak and Józef Siciak, Analytic functions in topological vector spaces; Studia Mathematica 39 (1971); (pdf).
Stephen Schanuel, Continuous extrapolation to triangular matrices characterizes smooth functions, J. Pure App. Alg. 24, Issue 1 (1982), 59–71. web
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