TITLE: Does the family of series have a limit?
QUESTION [7 upvotes]: For $r<1$ define $F(r)=\sum_{n\in\mathbb N}(-1)^nr^{2^n}$. Does $F$ have a limit as $r\nearrow 1$?

REPLY [2 votes]: My question was connected with this one. Namely, consider the sequence $(1, -1, -1, 1, 1, 1, 1, -1, \dots)$, where $(-1)^{k}$ stands for indices from $2^{k-1}$ to $2^k-1$. The Cesaro means can easily be calculated and they don't have a limit. The function $F$ here corresponds to the Abel means, and the equivalence of these summation methods for the bounded sequence implies that the Abel means diverge, too.