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Let $\omega$ be the first infinite ordinal, and let $A$ be a real $(\omega+1)\times(\omega+1)$-matrix, that is $A$ is a map $A:(\omega+1)\times(\omega+1) \to \mathbb{R}$.

Suppose that $A$ has the following properties:

  1. for all $k\in\omega$ we have $\lim_{n\to\infty}A(k, n) = A(k,\omega)$, or, in other words, the entries of every horizontal line converge to the rightmost element of that line;
  2. for all $k\in\omega$ we have $\lim_{n\to\infty}A(n,k) = A(\omega,k)$, or, in other words, the entries of every vertical line converge to the bottom element of that line;
  3. $\lim_{n\to\infty} A(n,\omega) = A(\omega,\omega)$, or, in other words, the right-hand elements of the matrix converge to the right bottom element.

Does this imply that $\lim_{n\to\infty}A(\omega, n) = A(\omega,\omega)$, that is the bottom line also converges to $A(\omega,\omega)$, the rightmost bottom element?

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    $\begingroup$ Is it me or this claim looks a lot like interchanging limits for doubly indexed sequences ? Then uniform convergence is the condition you would need to interchange limits. $\endgroup$
    – Hachino
    May 7, 2015 at 7:29
  • $\begingroup$ I think that's correct @Hachino - there is quite a trivial example with a binary matrix (see below). $\endgroup$ May 7, 2015 at 7:34

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No - there is even a counterexample with just entries in $\{0,1\}$.

Define $A:(\omega+1)^2\to \mathbb{R}$ by $(\alpha,\beta)\mapsto 0$ if $\alpha\leq \beta$, and $(\alpha,\beta)\mapsto 1$ otherwise. That is $A$ is the $(\omega+1)\times(\omega+1)$-matrix such that the elements on the main diagonal (and above) are $0$, and the other ones are $1$.

It's not hard to verify that the three conditions of the questions are satisfied. In particular note that the "right-hand entries" $A(n,\omega)$ are $0$ and they trivially converge to $A(\omega,\omega)=0$.

However, in the bottom line we have $A(\omega,n) = 1$ for all $n < \omega$, but $A(\omega,\omega) = 0$, therefore $\lim_{n\in\omega}A(\omega,n) = 1\neq A(\omega,\omega)$.

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