Hadamard's Gap Theorem
For a power series
with coefficients mostly zero in the precise sense that they vanish outside a sequence of exponents k(i) with
for some fixed δ > 0, the circle centre z0 and with radius the radius of convergence is a natural boundary. Such a power series defines a lacunary function.
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