grandes-ecoles 2022 Q10
Convergence/Divergence Determination of Numerical Series
We fix a real $\alpha > 0$ and an integer $n \geq 1$. Subject to existence, we set
$$S _ { n , \alpha } ( t ) : = \sum _ { k = 1 } ^ { + \infty } \frac { k ^ { n } e ^ { - k t \alpha } } { \left( 1 - e ^ { - k t } \right) ^ { n } }$$
We also introduce the function
$$\varphi _ { n , \alpha } : x \in \mathbf { R } _ { + } ^ { * } \mapsto \frac { x ^ { n } e ^ { - \alpha x } } { \left( 1 - e ^ { - x } \right) ^ { n } }$$
which is obviously of class $\mathcal { C } ^ { \infty }$.
Show that $\varphi _ { n , \alpha }$ and $\varphi _ { n , \alpha } ^ { \prime }$ are integrable on $] 0 , + \infty [$.