Abstract. We provide several general versions of Littlewood's Tauberian theorem. These versions are applicable to Laplace transforms of Schwartz distributions. We apply these Tauberian results to deduce a number of Tauberian theorems for power series where Cesàro summability follows from Abel summability. We also use our general results to give a new simple proof of the classical Littlewood one-sided Tauberian theorem for power series.
IntroductionA century ago, Littlewood obtained his celebrated extension of Tauber's theorem [22,14]. Littlewood's Tauberian theorem states that if the series ∞ n=0 c n is Abel summable to the number a, namely, the power series ∞ n=0 c n r n has radius of convergence at least 1 andand if the Tauberian hypothesisis satisfied, then the series is actually convergent, ∞ n=0 c n = a. The result was later strengthened by Hardy and Littlewood in [9,10] to an one-sided version. They showed that the condition (1.2) can be relaxed to the weaker one nc n = O L (1), i.e., there exists C > 0 such that −C < nc n .