Is $f: F \to R, \ (a_j)_{j \in \mathbb N} \mapsto \sum_{j \in \mathbb N} \ a_j $ bijective and find the inverse function!

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$F$ is the set of the sequences in $\mathbb C$ and $R$ is the set of the series in $\mathbb C$.

$f: F \to R, \ (a_j)_{j \in \mathbb N} \mapsto \sum_{j \in \mathbb N} \ a_j $

Now $\sum_{j \in \mathbb N} \ a_j $ should be the sequence of the partial sums $(s_n)_{n \in \mathbb N}$ with $s_n =\sum_{j \in \mathbb N} \ a_j $

  1. Show this transformation is BIJECTIVE!
  2. Find the inverse function!

Thoughts:

  • Because $F$ is the set of the sequences and set of the series $R$ is the sequence of the partial sums => $F=R$
  • So $f: F \to F, f(a)=y$ with $y_n:=\sum_{j=1}^n \ a_j$ for $a= (a_j)_{j \in \mathbb N}$
  • inverse function: $f^{-1}: F \to F,f^{-1}\sum_{j=1}^n \ a_j\mapsto R(a_i)$ with $a_i\sum_{j=1}^i a_i -\sum_{j=1}^{i-1} a_i$

Questions:

  1. How can I proove that it is bijective? (I think the sets F,R have the same cardinality)
  2. Is the inverse function correct?
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As @Hagen von Eitzen commented, your inverse function is correct, and you can conclude that it is bijective because there is an inverse. Yet I would like to point out a pair of similar operators which might be quite known to you.

Let $D : C^\infty \to C^\infty$ be an operator on the set of infinitely-differentiable functions given by: $$D(f) = f' = x\mapsto \lim_{h \to 0}\frac{f(x+h)-f(x)}{h}$$ and set $I : C^\infty \to C^\infty$ be defined as $$I(f) = x\mapsto\int_{[0,x)} f(t)\ \mathrm{d}t$$

Then, $D\big(I(f)\big) = f$ and $I\big(D(f)\big) = x\mapsto f(x) - f(0)$ (thanks to @Berci for correction; also, for convenience, we could consider only functions with $f(0) = 0$). Does these two seem familiar?

Now, if we were to adapt these operators to functions $f : \mathbb{N} \to \mathbb{R}$, we could write:

\begin{align} \Delta(f) &= n\mapsto\frac{f(n+1)-f(n)}{1}\\ S(f) &= n \mapsto \sum_{k \in [0,n)\cap\mathbb{N}} f(k) = n \mapsto \sum_{k = 0}^{n-1} f(k) \end{align} assuming convention where $\sum_{k=0}^{-1} f(k) = 0$. Simple calculation shows that $\Delta\big(S(f)\big) = f = S\big(\Delta(f)\big)$. For more, see here.

Now there is a very short step from $\Delta$ and $S$ to the two functions of yours.

I hope this helps $\ddot\smile$